{"id":115773,"date":"2026-07-23T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/115773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:29:10","slug":"chinas-moonshot-ai-stole-from-anthropic-trump-tech-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/115773\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, Trump tech adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A White House adviser has accused China&#8217;s Moonshot AI of a &#8220;large scale&#8221; effort to steal the capabilities of top US artificial intelligence (AI) models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">US President Donald Trump&#8217;s Science and Technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation &#8211; when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a stronger one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moonshot also gained access to restricted cutting-edge Nvidia servers to train its models, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Kratsios said in a social post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mkratsios47\/status\/2079933645888880708\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kratsios said in a social post<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The BBC has contacted Moonshot, Anthropic, the White House and Nvidia for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kratsios said on X that the US government has information that Moonshot AI &#8220;distilled&#8221; capabilities from Anthropic&#8217;s Fable AI for the development of its K3 model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kimi K3 gained attention around the world <a data-ylk=\"slk:after it was unveiled last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy9w4q8pgp0o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">after it was unveiled last week<\/a>, with many believing it to have narrowed the gap between Western and Chinese AI models. Moonshot said its K3 model is able to rival top US technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kratsios&#8217; allegations come just a day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US would examine whether Chinese AI models have stolen the capabilities from American rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen a lot of talk about open-source models coming and threatening the large language models in the US,&#8221; Bessent told Fox Business on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The increased scrutiny by the US of Chinese AI companies also comes as Trump is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A White House adviser has accused China&#8217;s Moonshot AI of a &#8220;large scale&#8221; effort to steal the capabilities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,58940,11405,1160,9603,1591,2602,4862],"class_list":["post-115773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-future-publishing","tag-michael-kratsios","tag-models","tag-moonshot-ai","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-scott-bessent","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115773","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=115773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}