{"id":23595,"date":"2026-07-23T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ai-experts-blast-us-claims-of-ip-theft-by-moonshots-kimi-k3\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:29:51","slug":"ai-experts-blast-us-claims-of-ip-theft-by-moonshots-kimi-k3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ai-experts-blast-us-claims-of-ip-theft-by-moonshots-kimi-k3\/","title":{"rendered":"AI experts blast US claims of \u2018IP theft\u2019 by Moonshot\u2019s Kimi K3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/07\/23\/f9017218-aa0a-4270-bdf6-e2bad7aae30d_c7bbefa5.jpg?itok=4yN2QxVJ&amp;v=1784807291\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.976744186047\">The global AI community has pushed back against the Trump administration&rsquo;s claims that Moonshot AI&rsquo;s <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">groundbreaking Kimi K3<\/span> distilled US models, citing a lack of justification and arguing that the practice does not constitute intellectual property theft.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In separate posts on X on Thursday, a number of AI experts called the accusations &ldquo;political&rdquo; and &ldquo;reckless&rdquo;, pointing out that an AI model&rsquo;s output was not copyrighted.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.474747474747\">A Moonshot employee on Thursday hit back at the US officials&rsquo; claims that the Chinese company conducted &ldquo;large-scale, covert industrial distillation&rdquo; against US models including <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Anthropic&rsquo;s<\/span> cutting-edge Fable 5, by pointing out the narrow window between the release of Kimi K3 and Fable 5.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;Yes, Fable went public on July 1 and K3 launched on July 15. We trained a brand new frontier model in JUST 15 DAYS. Guinness World Record stuff,&rdquo; Moonshot AI employee Randy Xian wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While US officials and AI labs have long attributed Chinese AI&rsquo;s rapid advancement to distillation, a common industry practice of using the outputs of larger, more capable models to train smaller ones, the White House adviser on Wednesday escalated the accusations by describing the practice as &ldquo;stealing proprietary US technology&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"11.436708860759\">Michael Kratsios, US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s science and technology adviser, <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">made the accusation on X on Wednesday.<\/span> Then US Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg echoed Kratsios&rsquo; remarks, characterising Moonshot AI&rsquo;s alleged distillation efforts as &ldquo;a heist of invaluable American Intellectual Property&rdquo;.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>AI experts blast US claims of &lsquo;IP theft&rsquo; by Moonshot&rsquo;s Kimi K3<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global AI community has pushed back against the Trump administration&rsquo;s claims that Moonshot AI&rsquo;s groundbreaking Kimi K3 distilled US models, citing a lack of justification and arguing that the practice does not constitute intellectual property theft. In separate posts on X on Thursday, a number of AI experts called the accusations &ldquo;political&rdquo; and &ldquo;reckless&rdquo;,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/ai-experts-blast-us-claims-of-ip-theft-by-moonshots-kimi-k3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;AI experts blast US claims of \u2018IP theft\u2019 by Moonshot\u2019s Kimi K3&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}