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AI Remixing Live: How Models Distill and Route Calls

Remember what Steve Jobs was saying about artists?

good artists copy, great artists steal.

well… we’re watching it live.

Composer 2 (Cursor's model)→ Kimi → Anthropic everyone remixing everyone. beautiful.

People have noticed under the hood that the endpoint literally says kimi-k2p5

Kimi team : wait… what?! (tweet appears and ... disappears)

Looks like this isn’t even the first time. Looks like old Composer was sitting on top of GLM 4.6 (which is under MIT license). But Kimi 2.5 is a different story. free… until ~100M users or $20M/month.

Meanwhile, Anthropic accusing Kimi of distilling millions of their queries too ... so the chain looks like:

Anthropic → Kimi → Composer 2

AI supply chain!

AI Remixing Live: How Models Distill and Route Calls

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