https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-weight-ai-civil-war/
“The open-weight Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is faster than Anthropic Fable 5 in some
ways, and is nearly as fast as Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 in others. That's
fast. And that has some American AI companies and the Trump administration
worried.
Michael Kratsios, Trump's director of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, has claimed that "Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the
development of its K3." In short, he's suggesting that China's Moonshot stole
from Anthropic. That's not how everyone sees it. Many US AI companies see
Moonshot's open-weight methods as perfectly legitimate.
You might think it would be simple — good guys versus bad guys — but it's
not. Even Kratsios admitted, "Legitimate AI distillation used to create
smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation
ecosystem." But, he added, "large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed
at stealing proprietary US technology and undermining American research is
unacceptable."
Are they really, though? The difference between illegitimate and legal uses of
other models is paper-thin. It largely depends on where you sit. All AI models
have been built on top of other models, and their data comes from essentially
everything and anything their builders can grab.”
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
