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"We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3"
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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...
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- Praise: Consumers might actually benefit from distillation practices, as it could lead to better and cheaper AI models hitting the market.
- Praise: The distillation process is not illegal, and many see it as a fair game in the competitive AI landscape.
- Concern: The hypocrisy is glaring—frontier labs call out distillation while they're built on a foundation of copyright infringement themselves.
- Concern: Moonshot's circumvention of research costs raises serious questions about the sustainability of AI labs that invest heavily in human data.