Why Chinese labs mostly distill from Anthropic, not OpenAI

A viral X discussion asks why Chinese labs favor distilling from Anthropic. teortaxesTex argues OpenAI models are distilled too but OpenAI cares less about the Chinese market, while the real driver is the difficulty of obtaining high-quality agent-era seed data.

2026-09-11 ~ 2026-09-11 · 3 related posts

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