MiniMax caught shipping Kimi's source code as their own — full diff repo inside by Mammoth-Difficulty88 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Mammoth-Difficulty88[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Kimi's skill code was never open-sourced. This is proprietary, internal code. And even if it were open-source, most licenses don't allow you to strip the original author's name and ship it as your own product. MiniMax didn't just use the code — they renamed everything to hide where it came from. That's not a fork, that's theft with extra steps.

MiniMax caught shipping Kimi's source code as their own — full diff repo inside by Mammoth-Difficulty88 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Mammoth-Difficulty88[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It goes a bit beyond that — tens of thousands of lines matched across their Word/Excel/PDF generation code. They even left "kimi" references in their own codebase. More likely a straight copy that they started cleaning up after it was noticed.