White House: Moonshot used banned Nvidia chips, US AI models for Kimi K3

White House science chief Michael Kratsios accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable and using banned Nvidia chips to build Kimi K3. The model surged to #2 on Vals Index and #1 on multiple benchmarks, challenging US frontier labs. OpenAI President Greg Brockman called Kimi K3 'pretty good' but said he wasn't sure about distillation.

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