US AI czar accused a Chinese lab of distilling a model that isn't a month old yet (twitter.com)
The US government's chief technology officer tweeted that China's Moonshot AI illegally distilled Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3 — released just three weeks after Fable itself went public.
The thread ran the timeline: Fable's access limits lifted July 1, K3 shipped July 16. Commenters found the compressed window less like theft, more like a stretch. One AI-lab-adjacent voice called it "BS to pressure politicians"; HN's own moderator waded in to police the discourse rather than settle the science.
A security researcher: distillation is real, but doesn't require the drama — "99% of the work is already done by that point."
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