Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com,A White House official accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable AI model to develop Kimi K3, which launched last week. “Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem,” he said. Kimi K3 has emerged as one of China’s most capable AI models, intensifying Washington’s concerns that American models are being covertly used to accelerate China’s AI progress. Still, some AI researchers questioned claims that Anthropic’s latest AI model was used to train Kimi K3. “I don’t think claiming that K3’s performance comes from fable distillation (even if they did it) makes sense technically.”