He also alleged the company had acquired servers equipped with Nvidia’s GB300 chips and accessed such systems in Thailand, likely to train its models.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later warned that Chinese companies could face financial sanctions or placement on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, which restricts access to US technology.
“We support open-source AI and the innovation it unlocks.
But open source is not open season on American IP,” Bessent wrote on social media platform X.
“When PRC (Chinese) firms conduct covert, industrial-scale distillation attacks that cross the line into IP theft, sanctions and Entity List designations will be on the table,” he said.
Moonshot has rejected suggestions that Kimi K3’s performance was achieved via distillation, telling China’s National Business Daily last week that its performance gains came from original changes to underlying architecture.
Placement on the Entity List could severely restrict Moonshot’s access to US semiconductors, software and cloud services. The US used the trade blacklist as a central part of its campaign against Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei beginning in 2019.
Anthropic said in February it had identified more than 3.4 million interactions with its Claude models linked to Moonshot.
It said hundreds of fraudulent accounts were used to target capabilities including reasoning, coding, data analysis, tool use, computer vision and the operation of computers.
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