#Moonshot AI
Anthropic accuses Moonshot of relaying Kimi customer requests to Claude Opus and showing the answer as if it came from Kimi: almost 300,000 requests in ten days, 5,380 fraudulent accounts and 23 million distillation exchanges. We separate what the 154-page report says, what it doesn't prove, what Moonshot has (not) answered and what changes for anyone running Kimi K3 in production.
PewDiePie says OpenAI banned his account twice for distillation while he was training Ajax, a local Qwen 3.5 9B with refusals removed by Heretic. What model distillation is, how OpenAI detects it (the report on the Moonshot case came out two days earlier), what's inside Ajax, and where the line sits between legitimate synthetic data and a ban on your account.
Moonshot AI published the Kimi K3 open weights a day ahead of schedule: 2.8 trillion parameters, a modified MIT license and native MXFP4 format. The math the hype skips: 1.4 TB of VRAM just to load the weights, an 8-GPU node that doesn't add up, and a break-even of 6,200 tokens per second to match the API at $3 / $15. Plus what US sanctions can actually reach when you download weights from Brazil.
Kimi K3 costs $3 input and $15 output per million tokens on the API (the chat at kimi.com is free), 1.7x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8, not the "5x" your timeline is claiming. We did the honest pricing math, separated the verifiable benchmarks from the hype, and show where it beats Claude (and where it doesn't).