US Threatens Sanctions After White House Accuses Moonshot of Distilling Anthropic's Model
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-07-23
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that the government could sanction Chinese AI companies. This follows accusations from White House officials that Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable model to develop its Kimi K3 model.
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