OpenAI Links Moonshot AI to 16,000 Requests in Distillation Campaign

OpenAI says it has linked people associated with Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi, to activity aimed at extracting protected reasoning from its models. Wccftech reports that the activity involved 16,000 requests.

In a post titled “Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign,” OpenAI described efforts to obtain protected reasoning from its models. The company said it attributes a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI.

The claim adds to earlier allegations about model distillation from Anthropic and the Trump administration, according to Wccftech. The source does not provide Moonshot AI’s response. OpenAI’s account is an allegation; the available source material does not establish independently that Moonshot AI directed the activity.