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OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses
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Chinese AI labs are now primarily targeting OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model instead of Anthropic's Claude after Anthropic tightened its defenses.
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- SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“Anthropic said this month that tighter limits, account bans and proxy-network blocks cut the data distillers harvest from Claude by 90% to 99%.”x.com
- SUPPORT@intcyberdigest“OpenAI tied the core of a July campaign to copy its hidden reasoning to people linked to Moonshot.”x.com
- SUPPORT@kimmonismus“As expected, Kimi 3.1 Pro distilled US frontier models to train their models. This time they distilled GPT-6 Astra.”x.com
- SUPPORT@koltregaskes“They call out America for also distilling from the internet without permission and the GPU restrictions that force Chinese labs down this route.”x.com
- SUPPORT@jingyanghk“Claude used to be the go-to targets for Chinese labs' distillation, but that has become almost impossible in the past couple months.”x.com
- SUPPORT@mtslive“In February, Anthropic said DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used about 24,000 fake accounts to run over 16 million chats with Claude”x.com