Kimi K3's rise sparks US-China AI distillation fight
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 topped benchmarks like Program Bench and Automation Bench against GPT 5.6 Sora and Claude Opus, drawing an Anthropic distillation accusation that reached the White House. Independent researchers call the claim implausible: Claude Opus was public only from June 1, leaving too little time to distill, train, and ship.
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