--- title: OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t... description: OpenAI president Greg Brockman acknowledged Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 as 'pretty good' but stopped short of confirming whether the Chinese lab distilled outputs... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-brockman-says-kimi-k3-is-pretty-good-won-t-confirm-distillation-fsym9sgzu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI president Greg Brockman acknowledged Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 as 'pretty good' but stopped short of confirming whether the Chinese lab distilled outputs... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/openai-s-brockman-says-kimi-k3-is-pretty-good-won-t-confirm-distillation-fsym9sgzu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fSYM9sGZu.png og:image:alt: OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI president Greg Brockman acknowledged Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 as 'pretty good' but stopped short of confirming whether the Chinese lab distilled outputs from OpenAI's models. The White House escalated accusations against Moonshot, with OSTP Director Michael Kratsios alleging the startup accessed banned Nvidia chips via Thailand intermediaries and conducted large-scale distillation from American AI models. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled potential sanctions within weeks. Brockman argued OpenAI retains a 'huge advantage' through compute infrastructure investment and estimated China is roughly four months behind the US. Kimi K3, a nearly three-trillion-parameter open-weight model released July 16, topped Arena's frontend coding leaderboard and is priced far below US competitors, accelerating commoditization concerns in the AI industry. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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