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White House accuses China’s Moonshot of stealing Anthropic AI

Headline from Digital Journal, on the newest of 3 developments

A top White House official accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of covertly copying Anthropic's most advanced model to build its Kimi K3.

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  1. China's Moonshot AI is seeking a $50 billion valuation in pre-IPO funding talks

    Headline from Quartz ·

  2. Trump tech official accuses China’s Moonshot AI of ‘large-scale’ plot to steal from Anthropic

    Headline from New York Post ·

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    White House accuses China’s Moonshot of stealing Anthropic AI

    Headline from Digital Journal ·

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  1. New York Post

    China-based Moonshot AI seeks $50B valuation — and could go public this year: report (opens New York Post)

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    The company – founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon-trained AI researcher Yang Zhilin – drew global attention with the launch of Kimi K3. The large-language model was trained on 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-source model ever released.

  2. Quartz

    China's Moonshot AI is seeking a $50 billion valuation in pre-IPO funding talks (opens Quartz)

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    The Chinese AI startup plans to open discussions in August on a final fundraising round before a Hong Kong listing as soon as this year

  3. Washington Examiner

    China’s ‘open source’ AI isn’t a gift — it’s a Trojan horse (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI recently released its latest model, Kimi K3, triggering fresh alarm in the United States that China may be erasing America’s AI lead. In April, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation estimated that China’s leading model at that time, DeepSeek’s…

  4. New York Post

    Trump tech official accuses China’s Moonshot AI of ‘large-scale’ plot to steal from Anthropic (opens New York Post)

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    New York Post's feed description

    Moonshot recently unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that it said is the world's largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching Anthropic's frontier Fable model.

  5. Quartz

    White House accused China's Moonshot AI of accessing banned Nvidia chips and stealing from Anthropic (opens Quartz)

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    Michael Kratsios said Moonshot used a covert platform to distill Anthropic's Fable model and acquired restricted Blackwell-generation servers in Thailand

  6. Digital Journal

    White House accuses China’s Moonshot of stealing Anthropic AI (opens Digital Journal)

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    A top White House official accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of covertly copying Anthropic's most advanced model to build its Kimi K3.

  7. Washington Examiner

    White House accuses Chinese Moonshot AI model of stealing US technology (opens Washington Examiner)

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    The White House on Wednesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of stealing proprietary U.S. technology to develop its latest AI model, as Washington and Beijing compete for dominance in the advancing technology.

  8. Semafor

    US says China's Moonshot stole from Anthropic (opens Semafor)

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    The US accused the Chinese AI startup of exploiting American tech to create its Kimi K3 model, threatening sanctions in response to what Washington described as “industrial-scale” theft of intellectual property.

  9. BBC News

    China's Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, Trump tech adviser says (opens BBC News)

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    The allegations come as Chinese AI companies are facing increased US government scrutiny.

  10. Tech Startups

    White House accuses Moonshot AI of using restricted Nvidia GB300 chips as Kimi K3 challenges OpenAI and Anthropic (opens Tech Startups)

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    The White House has leveled a new accusation against one of China’s fastest-growing AI startups, claiming Moonshot AI gained access to restricted Nvidia GB300 systems and may have used Anthropic’s technology to help build its latest model, according to a […] The post White House accuses Moonshot AI …

  11. BizPac Review

    China’s hottest AI company accused of stealing Anthropic data in ‘covert’ plot (opens BizPac Review)

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    The Trump administration is accusing a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company of conducting a “covert” plot to steal Anthropic’s data to boost its AI models. Moonshot AI, […]

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