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Open-weights Kimi K3 faces US sanction threat over alleged distillation of Anthropic's…

The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters, 1M context window). Treasury Secretary Bessent threatened sanctions; China warned of retaliatory measures. Moonshot plans to release model weights publicly on July 27.
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Highly performant open weights frontier models such as Kimi are a competitive threat to OpenAI...x.com
Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model 'theft'cnbc.com
Bessent Says US Will Scrutinize Chinese AI Models for IP Theftbloomberg.com
Moonshot AI to make Kimi K3 available for public downloadtechnode.com
Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fabletechcrunch.com
White House accuses Moonshot of siphoning Anthropic datathenewstack.io
❗NEWS❗The former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Presidential Science Advisor stated that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic's Fable.reddit.com
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