alt Hacker NewsThe fact that API based distillation is even a conversation right now makes me feel like the U.S. has their heads so far in the sand that it’s not really excusable.
These Chinese labs are producing novel models, publishing their techniques and sharing their open weights and the first topic of conversation is how they stole from U.S. AI labs.
Setting aside the fact that it doesn’t make any feasible sense to do API distillation, these models are outperforming frontier models on a number of benchmarks, and often times run more efficiently by several orders of magnitude.
We have to stop crying distillation, it’s getting embarrassing and at this point feels even a bit delusional.
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There's little doubt that Kimi K3 was distilled off Claude.
Anthropic stated in February that Moonshot AI (the creator of Kimi) distilled ~3.4 million exchanges from Claude models, as explained in their press release https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...
> We have to stop crying distillation, it’s getting embarrassing and at this point feels even a bit delusional.
It's a PR campaign - when they say its an "attack" they don't mean on Anthropic - but on America itself. What kind of American can let such a brazen attack go unanswered? At the very least, they ought to demand the dangerous, pinko, stolen models be banned in all 50 states, and pay whatever price demanded by the patriotic, freedom-loving, all-American AI labs that can never be accused of stealing.