Why Chinese labs distill from Anthropic: Claude's agent data is the scarce training signal
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-11
Responding to a question on why Chinese labs seemingly distill from Anthropic rather than OpenAI, teortaxesTex argues OpenAI doesn't care much about China, but fundamentally it's about the difficulty of acquiring certain training signal: Claude is a known good agent, this is the era of agents, and agentic RL seed datasets are hard to get otherwise.
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