US data vendors accused of selling RL environments to Chinese military-linked firms
xeophon · x · 2026-11-11
A user on X questioned why Chinese models keep up with US frontier labs, arguing they buy the same data from American data vendors. A quoted post claimed American companies are selling RL environments to China.
The poster questioned why US data vendors would advance the capabilities of entities on the US entity list with ties to the Chinese military. The claim includes a screenshot but is unverified.
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