Kimi Meme Skewers AI Copycat Loop

The punchline is that AI moats keep shrinking into a relay race: data in, model outputs out, and the next company pays to repackage the same capability.

• –Anthropic's Feb. 23, 2026 report said Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, and MiniMax ran millions of Claude prompts through thousands of fake accounts to extract capabilities, which is why the meme feels current instead of generic anti-AI snark.
• –Kimi K2.5 is a real, open-source, multimodal, agentic model, so Moonshot is both a serious competitor and an easy target for copy-the-copier jokes.
• –The image captures the industry's shift from model originality to distribution advantage: once outputs can be cloned, the durable edge moves to workflow, UX, and trust.
• –For developers, the practical takeaway is that model quality alone is getting commoditized faster than the surrounding product layer.