xAI appears to have used a workaround to train its Grok AI with outputs of Anthropic's Claude model after an Anthropic access cutoff in January.

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Researchers have uncovered a vast network of AI gateways that conceals the real users behind requests sent to Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, xAI, and other models. Team Cymru first counted 10,867 such servers, then, after broadening its search, revised the estimate to more than 80,000 relays. A significant portion of the traffic examined originated from China and Hong Kong, and certain clusters may serve not only to bypass regional restrictions but also to harvest the responses of frontier models en masse.

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The Double Standard of AI Training Recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed sharp criticism at leading AI developers. Specifically, he implicitly accused companies like Anthropic of glaring hypocrisy regarding model training. These firms freely exploit "fair use" provisions to harvest public internet data for their own systems. However, they simultaneously enforce draconian terms of service. Consequently, they strictly forbid competitors from learning via "model distillation."

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have joined forces through the Frontier Model Forum to detect and counter unauthorized AI model copying by Chinese firms.

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Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has publicly rejected claims that his artificial intelligence startup is lobbying for federal bans on open-weight AI

최근 인공지능 업계에서는 '모델 증류'라는 용어가 뜨거운 감자로 떠올랐습니다. 거대 언어 모델이 다른 모델을 가르치는 일종의 도제 학습 방식인데, 최근 일론 머스크의 xAI가 OpenAI의 기술을 활용해 Grok을 학습시켰다는 사실이 법정에서 확인되었습니다. 기술적 효율성을 추구하는