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Experts Doubt Anthropic's Fable Exploitation Made Kimi K3 So Strong

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechCrunch ·

A new AI model, Kimi K3, has achieved impressive performance shortly after Anthropic released its Fable model. Experts argue that simple distillation from Fable cannot account for Kimi K3's rapid advancement. The debate highlights ongoing tensions over model copying and competitive dynamics in AI development.

Meridian48 take
The claim that Kimi K3 merely exploited Fable oversimplifies the technical challenge; more likely, the startup combined distillation with novel training methods.
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