Thinking Machines Model Origins Spark Debate
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-07-16
A post recapped a report regarding the origins of Thinking Machines' first foundation model: its architecture references DeepSeek-V3, and its post-training data utilized synthetic data generated by Moonshot/Kimi K2.5.
The original thread expanded into a discussion about "distillation chains." If Kimi traces back to Anthropic, and other models continue to distill from Kimi, will these dependency chains eventually face regulatory or even congressional scrutiny?
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