Senior Trump administration officials have accused Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI of illegally obtaining advanced Nvidia chips and using Anthropic's AI model without authorization, according to N12. The accusation adds a chip-smuggling component to an earlier charge that Moonshot AI used distillation to copy Anthropic's Fable model.
Senior Trump administration officials have accused Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI of illegally obtaining advanced Nvidia chips and using Anthropic's AI model without authorization, according to N12. The accusation adds the chip-smuggling element to an earlier charge leveled earlier today that Moonshot AI used a technique known as 'distillation' to copy capabilities from Anthropic's Fable model to develop its own K3 model, as The Zioneer reported at 17:58.
The allegations come amid a widening US national security crackdown on Chinese access to frontier AI. The White House earlier restricted Anthropic's most advanced models — including Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — over concerns about potential Chinese access, as The Zioneer reported on June 13. The US has also accused other Chinese firms of similar practices, including Alibaba in a landmark distillation case.
The Nvidia chip acquisition, if confirmed, would represent a separate and potentially more serious breach of US export controls, which prohibit the sale of advanced AI chips to China without a license. The Trump administration has increasingly targeted the semiconductor supply chain to slow China's AI development.
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