Moonshot Kimi K3 distillation claim faces timeline pushback over Fable 5
kristoph · x · 2026-07-23
A post pushes back on claims that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic’s Fable 5.
- It points to the release timeline: Fable 5 launched on June 9, while Kimi K3 launched on July 16, arguing the window looks too short for a full frontier-model distillation and validation cycle.
- The author says distilling from older Claude versions is more plausible and likely legal, and adds that Kimi’s quality probably came from sources other than Fable.
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