In a dramatic development that should surprise no one in hindsight, a high-level official in the Trump administration has just declared that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 model has been distilled from Anthropic’s Fable, and further trained on NVIDIA’s GB300 GPUs in Thailand. Michael Kratsios asserts that Moonshot covertly owns some NVIDIA GB300 servers, and accessed additional GB300 GPUs in Thailand to train its Kimi K3 model As we reported recently, the proclivity of China’s AI labs to distill frontier US models is raising hackles within the Trump administration, especially given the fact that there is no easy way of preventing this. […]