Kimi K3's rise sparks US-China AI distillation fight

Anthropic claims Moonshot AI distilled Claude outputs to train Kimi K3, a charge echoed by White House science advisor Michael Kratsios. Independent researchers call the timeline implausible since Claude Opus was public only from June 1, leaving too little time to distill, train, and ship. Kimi K3 topped Program Bench and Automation Bench versus GPT 5.6 Sora and Claude Opus.

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