Companies with privileged frontier model access are reselling training traces to unknown buyers, researcher claims

andriy_mulyar · x · 2026-09-14

Researcher andriymulyar claims that over the past month many env companies backed by OpenAI/Anthropic/YC investments have used their elevated model privileges to resell frontier model traces to buyers of unknown origin — a gray market that exists, he suggests, because labs don't want those environments themselves. Unverified, but points to a hidden market for RL environment data.

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