Kimi K3 Distillation Claims Debunked: 2.8T Parameter Model Can’t Be Distilled from a 3-Day Model

An AI practitioner argues that accusations of Moonshot’s Kimi K3 being distilled from Anthropic’s Claude Fable are unrealistic: training a 2.8 trillion parameter model takes months, but Fable was only available for 3 days. K3 also introduced significant architectural innovations that are well-documented, and distillation cannot steal architecture. Ironically, the accused company showed its work.

• Anthropic
• Distillation
• Moonshot AI
• AI architecture
• Claude Fable
• Kimi K3