Chinese Researchers Used OpenAI, Anthropic Models To Train Domestic AI: Report

The documents show widespread use of a technique known as "model distillation," in which outputs from a powerful AI system are used to train smaller, specialised models that can be deployed locally

Chinese researchers have reportedly used leading U.S. AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train AI systems to advance defense capabilities.

In a bid to defend its market share against rapidly advancing, lower-cost Chinese rivals, US artificial intelligence firm OpenAI has launched an aggressive price war, slashing prices for its latest GPT-5.6 model line-up by up to 80 per cent. In a post on social media platform X on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announ

More than 80 Chinese papers and patents reviewed by Reuters show military-linked institutions using model distillation to build domestic AI systems for surveillance, cyber warfare and battlefield applications amid growing US-China technology tensions.

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defence systems  Reuters

The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer.

The statement, signed by senior executives at competing companies, calls on the government to help build the tools needed to pace frontier AI development.

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