White House claim that Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable into Kimi K3 draws researcher pushback

White House advisor Michael Kratsios accused Moonshot of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3. Researchers call this implausible: Fable was public since July 1, 2026 — two weeks before K3's release. AI2's Nathan Lambert says distillation at that scale would need reinforcement learning with tens of millions of agents, a prohibitive cost via any frontier API. No evidence or defined "watermarks" were provided. Moonshot will release full weights and training methods by July 27 for independent review.