Chinese military-linked researchers have used outputs from advanced American AI models made by OpenAI and Anthropic to train their own systems, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents. The findings come after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised concerns about China potentially using distillation to draw capabilities from powerful US frontier AI models.

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s…

Long regarded as a standard tool of AI research, distillation is now at the centre of a growing dispute over whether advanced AI capabilities can be transferred without the…

Chinese military researchers utilized outputs from top U.S