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Mellon Auditorium on March 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi\/Getty Images for The Hill & Valley Forum) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"60.793327154773\"><body readability=\"123.20364615703\"><\/p>\n<p>A top White House technology official is accusing a Chinese company of distilling Anthropic\u2019s models to create their own AI product.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kratsios, who leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, claimed that Moonshot AI, a Beijing, China-based AI company, had distilled Anthropic\u2019s recently-released Fable model to develop its own K3 model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo 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,\u201d Kratsios <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mkratsios47\/status\/2079933645888880708?s=20\">wrote<\/a> on X Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kratsios also said the company has used GB300 servers \u2013 either newly acquired or through Thailand \u2013 to train its AI models.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe United States strongly supports the free and fair development of AI, including a thriving competitive ecosystem that spans frontier models, specialized systems, open-source frameworks, and open-weight models,\u201d Kratsios continued. \u201cLegitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kratsios did not provide details on how the U.S. government learned that K3 had been distilled from Anthropic\u2019s model. <\/p>\n<p>Frontier AI companies in the U.S. have pressed policymakers to make it more difficult for third-parties to copy or duplicate advanced commercial models, calling it a form of intellectual property theft.<\/p>\n<p>On their website, Moonshot AI describes its Kimi K3 model as the first open 2.8 trillion parameter model, and promotes its lower token costs while still delivering near-frontier performance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile its overall performance still trails the most powerful proprietary models, Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, Kimi K3 demonstrated frontier-level performance across our evaluation suite, consistently outperforming other tested models,\u201d the company said on its website. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A request for comment sent to Moonshot AI was not returned before this article\u2019s publication. <\/p>\n<p>Piyush Sharma, CEO of Tuskira, an AI cybersecurity detection and response company, said distillation of AI models allows developers many of a model\u2019s core capabilities. He pointed to another example when Anthropic <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/anthropic-accuses-chinese-labs-ai-distillation-cyber-risk\/\">earlier this year<\/a> accused Chinese company Alibaba of distilling their Claude AI model.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anthropic, the campaign used 25,000 fraudulent accounts to run 28.8 million interactions on Claude over six weeks. Given that kind of volume \u201cthe goal was clearly replication,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a model has learned to reason through software weaknesses, security gaps, and attack paths, copying its behavior also copies that analytical capability,\u201d said Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee and Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., Chair of the Select Committee on China, <a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026.04.29-Homeland-China-Select-Letter-to-Anysphere-Inc.pdf\">announced<\/a> they were conducting a joint investigation into the integration of Chinese AI models.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The committees said the inquiry will also focus on \u201cexamining a pattern of conduct by [Chinese]-based AI laboratories involving the large-scale theft of proprietary capabilities from American frontier AI systems through adversarial distillation\u201d as well as \u201c the redistribution of those stolen capabilities as open-weight models available for global download, and the incorporation of PRC-origin models into products used daily by hundreds of thousands of American developers and engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Western governments and industry accuse Chinese companies of routinely stealing their technology, intellectual property and other trade secrets, often with the tacit support of Beijing. The copying of AI models would continue a long and established tradition of Chinese-sponsored intellectual property theft.<\/p>\n<p>However, while distillation attacks by foreign governments or companies on U.S. frontier companies can have real national security implications, it\u2019s still a fraught question of where policymakers should draw the line.<\/p>\n<p>The AI industry, which includes not just frontier companies but large businesses with their own bespoke models, smaller proprietary startups and a vibrant open-source ecosystem, routinely share and use third-party data, including critical code and training sets for AI models.<\/p>\n<p>Further, U.S. frontier AI companies have built and trained their world leading models in large part by crawling the open internet, ingesting content created and produced by others. Critics (and multiple ongoing lawsuits) argue that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic built their empires on data and content from others, taken almost entirely without consent or compensation.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.4779541446208\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. Johnson\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Derek B. Johnson<\/h4>\n<p> Derek B. Johnson is a reporter at CyberScoop, where his beat includes cybersecurity, elections and the federal government. 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Johnson <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/us-lifting-export-control-restrictions-anthropic-mythos-fable\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"253\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-4.jpg?resize=253%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg 5916w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=2048,1363 2048w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=600,399 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=253,168 253w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=507,337 507w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=1015,675 1015w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/white-house-accuses-chinese-company-of-distilling-anthropics-fable-8.jpg?resize=1267,843 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> Anthropic announced the release of two new Mythos-class artificial intelligence models designed for cybersecurity and biomedical research, targeting both consumers and businesses. 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