Report agrees with Anthropic CEO’s complaint to the US government on Chinese AI models

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. Reuters found that researchers linked to China’s military and security institutions have used a technique called “model distillation” to transfer selected capabilities and reasoning from US models into smaller systems that can be controlled and deployed locally, including for defence-related applications.Chinese military researchers use US AI models for distillationAccording to Reuters, the documents provide a look at how institutions linked to China’s military are using advanced US AI models while Washington tries to restrict Beijing’s access to advanced chips and other technologies.