Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

A White House science advisor accused a Chinese AI company of copying a U.S. model while using export-banned chips, sparking debate about whether this explains the Chinese company's advanced capabilities. However, experts are skeptical that the copying method described would be sufficient to produce such a strong model in the short timeframe involved, noting that the required advanced techniques would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. The debate reflects broader concerns about access to advanced chips and whether frontier AI models from other countries contribute to Chinese AI development, though distillation is acknowledged as a common practice across the industry rather than unique to China.