A US White House official accused Chinese startup Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, with sanctions on the table. Here's what distillation means, what's alleged, and why experts are skeptical.

As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead.

The White House accuses Moonshot AI of misusing Nvidia chips and US AI models to build Kimi K3, the world's largest open-weight model with 2.8