OpenAI's Astra becomes main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens defenses
The Decoder · rss · 2026-10-29
Per The Decoder, after Anthropic tightened its usage defenses, Chinese AI labs have shifted their primary tapping target from Claude to OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra — showing how vendor export restrictions directly reshape which frontier models Chinese labs rely on.
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