Moonshot's Kimi K3, July 23 -- sanctions and export-control blacklisting were on the table. The technical case for either action, based on what the US government has made public, is thinner than the official statements suggest.

the US government now appears to be arguing that making a distilled model publicly available compounds the IP harm.

The technical timeline that Kratsios's accusation depends on is difficult to reconcile with how large AI models are developed. Anthropic made Fable 5 publicly available on July 1. Kimi K3 appeared weeks later. For Moonshot to have conducted a large-scale distillation in that window, running millions of queries against Fable 5, incorporating the outputs into training data, and retraining a model comp...