OpenAI President Says Kimi K3 ‘Pretty Good,’ Unsure If Distilled - Bloomberg.com

What the report says

Bloomberg reported that OpenAI President Greg Brockman said Moonshot AI’s newly released Kimi K3 is a strong artificial intelligence model, while adding that he did not know whether the Chinese company had relied on OpenAI technology to build it. The comments were made in a Tuesday interview, according to Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary, in an article dated July 22, 2026.

Brockman was referring to Kimi K3, described by Bloomberg as a more advanced model released by Moonshot days earlier. He characterized the model as competitive, saying there was no doubt about its quality, but the limited public text does not show him making a firm accusation about how it was developed.

The issue matters because “distillation” — a process in which one AI system is trained using outputs from another — has become a sensitive topic in the industry. If a company were found to have improperly used another firm’s model outputs, it could raise legal, commercial and intellectual-property questions. Bloomberg’s available text, however, only says Brockman was uncertain whether Moonshot had piggybacked on OpenAI’s technology.

Moonshot AI is one of several Chinese AI developers competing in a fast-moving global market where model performance, training methods and access to advanced computing resources are closely watched. Based on the supplied Bloomberg material, the key development is Brockman’s public recognition that Kimi K3 is capable, alongside his unresolved question about whether OpenAI’s work may have played a role.