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China's Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, Trump tech adviser says
BBC • • general
Key Points:
- A White House adviser, Michael Kratsios, accused China's Moonshot AI of conducting a "large scale" campaign to steal capabilities from top US AI models using a technique called distillation, where a weaker AI extracts answers from a stronger one.
- Moonshot AI reportedly accessed restricted Nvidia servers, including those powered by the GB300 Grace Blackwell platform, to train its K3 model, despite US export restrictions aimed at preventing Chinese military use.
- The US government has information that Moonshot distilled capabilities from Anthropic's Fable AI, and the Kimi K3 model has gained global attention for potentially narrowing the gap between Western and Chinese AI technologies.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that sanctions could be imposed if Chinese companies engage in industrial-scale intellectual property theft through distillation attacks, emphasizing support for open-source AI but protection of American IP.
- Moonshot AI plans to release its Kimi K3 model as an open-source project on July 27, while Anthropic has previously accused Alibaba of similar IP theft and called on Congress to strengthen protections against such practices.
