The Kimi K3 Distillation Accusation: What US Officials Said, What AI Researchers Believe, and What Open-Weight Model Users Should Do
White House advisor Michael Kratsios and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent accused Moonshot AI of training Kimi K3 by distilling Anthropic Fable 5. AI researchers say the two-week timeline makes large-scale distillation physically impossible. Here is the fact pattern and what teams using open-weight models should do.