China's Moonshot tapped Anthropic's Fable for latest AI model, official says

US White House official accuses China's Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to develop its K3 release, and acquiring Nvidia GB300 chips via Thailand to train AI systems in breach of export controls. The accusation follows Moonshot's unveiling of Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model claimed to approach Fable's performance.

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