Chinese military researchers linked to the People’s Liberation Army have leveraged US artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems and advance China’s military strength.

The new data provides an exclusive look into how military and security-linked institutions in China are employing cutting-edge US AI models as a shortcut to developing systems of their own despite Washington’s efforts to limit access to advanced chips and other key innovations.

The documents reveal a prevalent approach of a technique known as model distillation in which outputs from a powerful AI system are used to train smaller models that can be deployed locally........

© The News International