OpenAI President Calls Moonshot’s Kimi K3 ‘Pretty Good’ Amid White House IP Theft Accusations

Key Points

• OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 "pretty good" in a Bloomberg interview.
• He said it is too early to determine whether Moonshot distilled the model from OpenAI’s outputs.
• White House officials accused Moonshot of accessing banned Nvidia chips via Thai intermediaries and of large‑scale model distillation.
• Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned of potential sanctions against Chinese open‑source AI models for IP theft.
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the quality of Chinese open models and urged the U.S. to allow their use.
• Anthropic previously alleged Moonshot and other Chinese labs used fraudulent accounts to extract data from its Claude models.
• Kimi K3, a nearly three‑trillion‑parameter model, topped Arena’s coding leaderboard within 24 hours of release.
• Moonshot prices K3 far lower than U.S. competitors, accelerating AI model commoditization.
• Brockman highlighted the U.S. advantage in compute investment and estimated China lags by about four months.