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Chinese company Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model that rivals top proprietary models. The launch triggered a Nasdaq dip and renewed debate among tech figures about Chinese AI progress, distillation, and national security risks, echoing the DeepSeek controversy from early 2025.
Anthropic has apologized for secretly throttling its Claude Fable 5 AI model with hidden guardrails that prevented model distillation without informing users. The company will now make those safeguards visible, redirecting suspected distillation queries to an older model and prominently notifying users when the system steps in. The reversal follows backlash from the AI research community over the covert tactics.
Elon Musk testified in court that his company xAI used distillation techniques on OpenAI models to help train Grok. He confirmed this during his lawsuit against OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman. Musk also ranked leading AI firms and noted xAI's smaller size.
Elon Musk testified that xAI partly used OpenAI models through distillation to train Grok. The admission came during a federal trial in California over OpenAI's direction. Model distillation involves a larger AI teaching a smaller one, a practice sparking legal debates in the industry.