U.S. AI Companies Collaborate to Counter Chinese Model Distillation Practices

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are collaborating through the Frontier Model Forum to combat adversarial distillation—a practice where Chinese competitors extract outputs from leading U.S. AI models to replicate their capabilities at lower cost. OpenAI has specifically accused Chinese firm DeepSeek of attempting to 'free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other U.S. frontier labs,' according to a memo sent to Congress. Google and Anthropic declined to comment on the effort. The info