OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning
In briefOpenAI says a campaign that began July 1 sent 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 users on July 24-25 alone, within a cluster of over 15,000 users.OpenAI attributes a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, maker of Kimi, and says it is unclear whether all operators came from a single actor.The target was the hidden “reasoning” OpenAIs models generate before answering, which OpenAI says could train another model without the original safeguards. OpenAI claims to have shut down a coordinated effort to copy the way its AI models think, and it traces a core cluster of that activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese startup behind the Kimi chatbot. The campaign began on July 1, according to OpenAI. On July 24 and 25 alone, it logged 16,000 extraction requests from more than 4,000 users, part of a wider cluster of over 15,000 users. OpenAI says it fully disrupted the activity by July 28. Myriad: Which company IPOs next? Click to make your prediction. The target wasnt the answers, but the work behind them. Modern AI models “reason” before they reply—they work through a problem step by step in an internal scratchpad, then show you a clean









