White House accuses Chinese AI developer of IP theft
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ByAlexandra Kelley,
Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW
July 22, 2026 04:50 PM ET
Tech policy leadership in the White House say Moonshot AI illegally trained its model off of Anthropic’s Fable.
A Chinese artificial intelligence developer allegedly stole Anthropic’s intellectual property through a machine learning technique, a top U.S. government tech official shared on Wednesday.
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios said on X that Beijing-based Moonshot AI illicitly trained its new K3 model on Anthropic’s Fable through a technique called model distillation, a process in which an AI model learns and copies the inner workings of a more mature and complex model, usually focusing on one aspect of the larger model. This results in the newer model working like the more complex version and producing comparable outputs.
Anthropic’s Fable model is itself a safer version...
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