By REUTERS
Beijing. Chinese military researchers have used outputs from advanced United States artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems aimed at strengthening China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.
The findings provide a rare insight into how military and security-linked institutions in China are using leading US AI technologies to accelerate the development of specialised systems, despite Washington’s efforts to restrict Beijing’s access to advanced chips and other strategic technologies.
The documents reveal widespread use of a technique known as “model distillation”, where outputs from powerful AI systems are used to train smaller, specialised models that require less computing power and can operate locally.
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