OpenAI’s Astra used by Chinese AI firms to train models- The Information

DeepSeek and Moonshot AI used outputs from OpenAI’s Astra model to train their latest artificial intelligence systems, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The two Chinese AI developers employed a practice called distillation, which involves using outputs from one AI model to train another. This method remains a major factor in the advancement of Chinese open-weight models.

OpenAI and Anthropic have repeatedly criticized such distillation efforts.