Are Chinese models secretly routing to Claude? A cost and reproducibility rebuttal

op7418 · x · 2026-09-11

Responding to rumors that a Chinese model secretly routes to Claude, the author offers two rebuttals: the model is open source so benchmark results must be reproducible by others, making hidden routing easy to expose; and the cost of calling Claude is unsustainable for serving at scale.

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