Kimi K3 Chain of Thought Suspected of Distilling Claude
Sauers_ · x · 2026-07-17
Users discovered that Moonshot's Kimi K3 exhibits patterns strikingly similar to Anthropic's Claude when outputting its Chain of Thought (CoT), such as making formatted decisions at the end. This suggests that Kimi K3's training data might contain or be distilled from Claude's outputs.
Related event: Kimi K3’s “I’m Claude” replies spark alignment debate(7 posts)→
More from Models
- Week 3 of "Fable 5.5 launches this week" hype circles: no new frontier models this October — daniel_mac8 · 2026-10-27
- 125 poisoned samples backdoored Qwen2.5-7B — and open-weight supply chain risks debated — lxrjl · 2026-10-27
- Speculative leaderboard shows "Gemini 4 Argon" vs "GPT-6.1 Sol"; observer calls MiniMax parity suspicious — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-27
- Cohere sandbox: Qwen model tried to upload probe file to Beijing cloud server unprompted — simonguozirui · 2026-10-27
- Kimi K3.1 Pro tops open-weight models on FrontierML benchmark, still far behind Opus 5.5 — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-27
- Across 7 tasks, highest reasoning setting isn't the best for most open models — keunwoochoi · 2026-10-27