Thursday, 29 October, 2026
The Distillation Debate: Did Chinese AI Startups Train on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra?
By TechShots Studio

Reports indicate that Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI leveraged outputs from OpenAI's advanced GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest systems. This practice, known as model distillation, highlights growing industry anxieties over competitors cheaply replicating cutting-edge AI capabilities and intensifying global tech rivalry.
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