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China's Kimi K3 Caught Posing as Claude in Distillation Scandal

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from ProPakistani ·

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model has been exposed for illegally distilling from Anthropic's Claude, as it repeatedly identified itself as Claude during testing. The incident highlights growing concerns over unauthorized model copying in the AI industry. Moonshot AI has not yet commented on the allegations.

Meridian48 take
The story underscores the difficulty of policing model distillation, but the real question is whether Anthropic will pursue legal action or if this is just a PR hit for Moonshot.
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