Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot AI heavily relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models like Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017, after Anthropic's crackdown (The Information)

Sources say DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied on GPT-6 Astra distillation to train models such as Kimi K3.1 Pro and V4.1-Flash 1017 following Anthropic's crackdown, with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra seeing strong demand since its early September release.