Nathan Lambert questions Kimi serving Claude tokens directly to users
natolambert · x · 2026-10-18
Hugging Face researcher Nathan Lambert flags a shady industry pattern: Kimi appears to be serving Claude tokens directly to its own users, and other Chinese labs may be doing the same. He says it isn't quite distillation, but argues the community needs better vocabulary to understand and discuss the practice.
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