Mira Murati’s $12B lab built its first model on Chinese foundations. Why nobody calls it theft, and what it means for OpenAI and US AI policy.

Mira Murati’s $12B lab built its first model on Chinese foundations. Why nobody calls it theft, and what it means for OpenAI and US AI policy.

Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO (and, briefly, CEO during Sam Altman’s ouster in 2023), wrote on X that the open-weight model, called “Inkling,” was trained from scratch. Judging by…