OpenAI Says It Caught a Major Distillation Run, Points to Moonshot AI

ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-10-01

OpenAI reportedly detected and blocked a major distillation run against its models, claiming Moonshot AI was behind it. Distillation — training on a frontier model's outputs — is something OpenAI has repeatedly said it would ban. Details come via third-party relay; neither OpenAI nor Moonshot has published full official statements yet.

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