Chinese AI labs turn to distilling OpenAI Astra
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According to The Information, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI made heavy use of outputs from OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, in training their latest models, involving Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017. After Anthropic tightened its defences, Astra became the main distillation target for Chinese AI labs, the report says. Progress is limited to that report, with no response from the companies involved and no further details.
Written by AI from the reports · updated 3 h ago
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Oct 29
- The DecoderOpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses
Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic's Claude.
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