On Thursday, Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman accused Chinese AI labs of relying on U.S. frontier models to advance their own systems, after Anthropic disclosed large-scale efforts to extract capabilities from Claude.
Daniel Newman Slams China AI Narrative Newman took to X, calling the alleged activity "freaking insane" and arguing that some Chinese AI models may not be as independently developed as widely portrayed.
"Now can we talk about why these Chinese "Open Weight" models are so good?" Newman wrote.
He alleged that Chinese labs were "routing prompts through Claude" and using the resulting outputs to train their own models.
Now can we talk about why these Chinese "Open Weight" models are so good?
