Kimi K3 Distillation Rumors Debunked by Timeline

Rumors claiming Moonshot's Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic's Fable 5 have been debunked. Community members pointed out a timeline mismatch, noting that frontier model training takes months, whereas Fable 5 was just released in June.

2026-07-23 ~ 2026-07-23 · 2 related posts

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