Why Chinese labs distill from Anthropic, not OpenAI: agent training data is the answer
_ueaj · x · 2026-09-11
An X exchange digs into why Chinese LLM labs appear to distill mostly from Anthropic:
- @ueaj asks if it's because OpenAI is silent on distillation enforcement, or simply worse, and whether OpenAI's Astra might change that.
- @teortaxesTex argues OpenAI does get distilled but doesn't care much about China; the deeper reason is training-signal difficulty — Claude is a known-good agent, and in the agent era it's hard to source seed datasets for agentic RL elsewhere.
- They speculate Astra could return OpenAI to the prime distillation target list.
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