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AI experts challenge US claims that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 used US distillation
The White House adviser escalated the criticism, framing AI distillation as theft of proprietary US technology, which experts disputed as a political accusation.
The global AI community has pushed back against claims from the Trump administration that Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model relied on distilling US models, arguing there is no clear justification for the allegation and that the practice does not amount to intellectual property theft, according to the SCMP Economy.
In separate posts on X on Thursday, multiple AI experts described the accusations as political and reckless, pointing out that an AI model’s output is not protected by copyright, SCMP Economy reported.
Moonshot AI employee Randy Xian defended the timeline, saying Fable went public on July 1 and K3 launched on July 15, adding that Moonshot trained a new frontier model in 15 days.
SCMP Economy also noted that while US officials and AI labs have previously attributed Chinese advances to distillation, the White House adviser on Wednesday escalated the language by calling the process “stealing proprietary US technology.”