Moonshot AI has responded after Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, accused the company of referencing Anthropic’s Fable while developing its K3 model and of building a large-scale internal distillation platform. Randy Xia, a member of the Moonshot AI team, disputed the claim by pointing to the timeline cited in the discussion: Fable was released on July 1, while K3 went live on July 15. By that sequence, he said, Moonshot AI would have had to complete model research, distillation, training, and release within 15 days. Xia mocked that implication, saying the team would have set a Guinness World Record by training a brand-new frontier model in such a short window. Kratsios had also alleged that Moonshot AI procured GB300 servers and accessed equipment in Thailand for training. The U.S. side said it supports lawful distillation but opposes the covert industrial use of distillation to steal technology.
Moonshot AI has responded to allegations from Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, over how the company developed its K3 model.
According to ChainCatcher, Kratsios accused Moonshot AI, the company behind Kimi, of referencing Anthropic’s Fable during K3 development and of setting up a large-scale distillation platform.
Randy Xia, a member of the Moonshot AI team, answered by pointing to the timeline. He said Fable was released on July 1, while K3 went live on July 15. On that basis, Moonshot AI would have had only 15 days to complete model research, distillation, training, and launch. Xia mocked that conclusion, saying: "We trained a brand-new frontier model in just 15 days — that would basically be a Guinness World Record."
Kratsios outlined broader claims
Kratsios had previously written that Moonshot AI built an internal platform capable of carrying out large-scale distillation against U.S. models. He also alleged that the company switched among multiple access methods to evade detection.
He added that Moonshot AI had purchased GB300 servers and used access to related equipment in Thailand for training.
The U.S. side said it supports lawful distillation, but opposes the use of covert industrial distillation methods to steal technology.
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