{"id":115375,"date":"2026-07-22T19:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/115375\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:48:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:48:32","slug":"chinas-moonshot-ai-stole-from-anthropics-fable-to-develop-latest-ai-model-trump-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/115375\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic&#8217;s Fable to develop latest AI model: Trump admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/21\/business\/china-based-moonshot-ai-seeks-50-billion-valuation-could-go-public-this-year-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China\u2019s\u00a0Moonshot\u00a0AI<\/a> stole from Anthropic\u2019s most sophisticated AI large language model, Fable, to help create its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/17\/business\/chinese-ai-firm-moonshot-unveils-powerful-model-with-capabilities-close-to-anthropic-openai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K3 release<\/a> and has acquired advanced Nvidia AI chips, top White House tech official Michael Kratsios said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have information that\u00a0Moonshot\u00a0AI distilled Anthropic\u2019s Fable for the development of its K3 model,\u201d he said in a post on X. \u201cLarge-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary US technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said Moonshot AI had acquired servers containing powerful Nvidia\u00a0NVDA.O\u00a0AI chips\u00a0called GB300s and had used\u00a0them in Thailand, \u201clikely to train its AI models.\u201d A senior Trump administration official said in February that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek\u2019s latest\u00a0AI model was trained on Nvidia\u2019s most advanced AI chip, in what could represent a violation of U.S. export controls.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40056917\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-office-science-technology-131871253.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Kratsios speaking in the Oval Office, accompanied by Donald Trump and Howard Lutnick.\" class=\"wp-image-40056917\"  \/>White House tech official Michael Kratsios (left) accused China\u2019s Moonshot\u00a0AI of stealing from Anthropic\u2019s most sophisticated AI large language model. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Moonshot and the Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The US State Department\u00a0ordered\u00a0a global push in April to bring attention to what it says are widespread efforts by Chinese companies, including Moonshot AI, to steal intellectual property from US artificial intelligence labs, according to a diplomatic cable seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Distillation is the process of training smaller AI models using output from larger, more expensive ones as part of an effort to lower the costs of training a powerful new AI tool.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has warned lawmakers that DeepSeek was targeting the ChatGPT maker and the nation\u2019s leading AI companies to replicate models and use them for its own training,\u00a0Reuters reported in February.<\/p>\n<p>The April cable from the State Department said, \u201cAI models developed from surreptitious, unauthorized distillation campaigns enable foreign actors to release products that appear to perform comparably on select benchmarks at a fraction of the cost but do not replicate the full performance of the original system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40056930\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/kimi-k3-new-generation-ai-135073128.jpg\" alt=\"A man looking at a display showcasing &quot;Kimi K3 Open Frontier Model&quot; with a diagram of magnetic fields and other AI-related metrics.\" class=\"wp-image-40056930\"  \/>Chinese AI startup\u00a0Moonshot\u00a0on Friday unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that it said is the world\u2019s largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching Anthropic\u2019s frontier Fable model. stringer \/ Avalon<\/p>\n<p>Chinese AI startup\u00a0Moonshot\u00a0on Friday unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/20\/business\/chinas-moonshot-ai-pauses-subscriptions-for-powerful-kimi-k3-model-due-to-high-demand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model<\/a> that it said is the world\u2019s largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching US giant Anthropic\u2019s frontier Fable model.<\/p>\n<p>The launch, which comes a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/30\/business\/trump-administration-lifts-export-controls-on-anthropics-most-powerful-ai-models-ending-bitter-standoff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic\u2019s Fable and Mythos models<\/a> were abruptly withdrawn by the US government due to security concerns, underscores how quickly China\u2019s open AI ecosystem is narrowing the gap with the most advanced US systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s\u00a0Moonshot\u00a0AI stole from Anthropic\u2019s most sophisticated AI large language model, Fable, to help create its latest K3 release&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,309,387,625,464,781,26425],"class_list":["post-115375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-tech","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}