Want US frontier lab secrets? Just look at Chinese SOTA models, quips AI insider
gowthami_s · x · 2026-09-19
An X user relays a friend's quip that the secrets of US frontier labs are best learned by studying Chinese SOTA models — implying those models may already mirror frontier-lab know-how. The claim comes alongside recent reports of OpenAI and Mistral codebases being sold on the dark web. Purely speculative, with no concrete evidence presented.
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