"We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3"
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July 22, 2026
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Summary
We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection. Moonshot AI has also acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, like...
Community Sentiment
Positives
- Consumers might actually benefit from distillation practices, as it could lead to better and cheaper AI models hitting the market.
- The distillation process is not illegal, and many see it as a fair game in the competitive AI landscape.
Concerns
- The hypocrisy is glaring—frontier labs call out distillation while they're built on a foundation of copyright infringement themselves.
- Moonshot's circumvention of research costs raises serious questions about the sustainability of AI labs that invest heavily in human data.
