Kimi K3 Distillation Claims Questioned as Potential Data Contamination

Recent claims that Kimi K3 distilled from Claude face strong skepticism, with the paper's authors admitting a lack of decisive evidence. Analysts suggest the results are more likely due to data contamination from the well-known HLE test set rather than actual model distillation.

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