July 23, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian hosted a regular press conference.
AFP reporter asked that high-ranking White House officials accused Chinese companies on Wednesday of replicating Anthropic’s model in its ‘dark side’. What is the Foreign Ministry’s comment on this?
Lin Jian stated that the development of artificial intelligence in China is not only a result of promoting high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, but also thanks to China's consistent adherence to the concept of joint consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits. Countries should adopt a people-oriented and positive approach, promote the open, inclusive, beneficial, and positive development of artificial intelligence, and better serve the progress of human civilization and the common well-being of the international community.
He emphasized that China has always opposed politicizing and instrumentalizing science, technology, and economic issues. Such actions will only disrupt the global development of artificial intelligence and do not serve the interests of either side.
According to Reuters, on July 22 local time, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House's Technology Policy Office, posted a malicious message on social media platform X: "The Dark Side of the Moon obtained technology from Anthropic's Fable through 'distillation' in order to develop the K3 model... with the intention of stealing American proprietary technologies and weakening American research."
American Treasury Secretary Steven Bernstein also stated on Fox Business Channel’s program on Tuesday that the government will investigate whether Chinese AI companies are developing their own models by improperly ‘distilling’ American models. He also mentioned that the United States can impose sanctions on companies involved in intellectual property theft.
Recently, Moon's Dark Side released a new generation of Kimi K3. Its parameters amount to 2.8 trillion, making it the open-source model with the largest parameters size in the world at present. It is reported that this model surpasses all competitors, except for Claude Fable 5 under Anthropic and OpenAI GPT-5.6, in terms of overall capabilities.
According to a report by the 'Politician' news website on July 22, nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off America's access to Chinese AI models. Otherwise, it could stifle the development of the next generation of American startups.
Artificial intelligence (AI) foundational infrastructure startups, co-founded by Particle founder Suhail Doshi, a member of the association, stated in an interview: "Hundreds of companies will likely shut down instantly. This is obviously good news for Anthropic because everyone will have to pay for Anthropic's services."
Earlier reports indicated that the Trump administration was considering banning Chinese AI models from entering the U.S. market. Shortly after this information was released, Moon’s Dark Side launched a powerful Kimi K3 model, which has made the related controversy even more urgent.
