Timeline
Released Kimi K3, a 1.56 trillion parameter MoE model
Open-weight release of Kimi K3 scheduled to offload compute demand
White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model to train Kimi K3
Paused new subscriptions for Kimi K3 due to GPU capacity limits
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 achieved 89.2% on SWE-bench Front-End, beating GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.0 Pro
Released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with 1M token context window
DeepSeek is in early talks for a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation.
Released DSpark speculative decoding framework
Began developing custom inference ASICs to cut GPU dependency
China's domestic AI chip budget share rises to 46%, driven by DeepSeek and Zhipu exploring custom silicon
Ecosystem
Moonshot AI
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Evidence (4 articles)
Anthropic's Distillation Allegations Reveal AI's Uncharted Legal Frontier
Feb 24, 2026The AI Espionage Frontier: Anthropic Exposes Systematic Claude Data Extraction by Chinese AI Labs
Feb 23, 2026Claude Code Steganography Flagged Chinese Users; Anthropic Rolls Back
Jul 1, 2026Anthropic Exposes Massive AI Model Theft Operation Targeting Claude
Feb 23, 2026