Why You Can't Just Copy Your Way to a World-Class AI

When a new artificial intelligence model suddenly leaps to the top of the global leaderboards, the tech industry tends to ask a familiar question: did they actually build this, or did they just copy someone else's homework? This is the debate currently surrounding Moonshot AI's new model, Kimi K3. Rumors quickly spread that its sudden brilliance was merely the result of scraping and copying Anthropic's advanced model, known