OpenAI says it disrupted a Moonshot-linked distillation campaign

OpenAI said on September 30 it disrupted a July campaign to extract protected model reasoning and attributed a core cluster of operators to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Beijing lab behind Kimi. It said activity began July 1, spiked to 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users on July 24-25, spread across more than 15,000 users, and was fully disrupted by July 28, without a breach of encryption or stored chats. OpenAI could not tie every operator to one actor; Moonshot had not issued a public reply in the sources checked, so the attribution remains OpenAI's account.