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DeepSeek, Moonshot Used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to Train Latest Models, The Information Reports

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Oct 28 (Reuters) - Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's powerful GPT-6 Astra ​model to train their latest models, ‌The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matte...

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According to ChainCatcher, citing The Information and multiple sources familiar with the matter, both DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 update on October 17th and the newly released Kimi K3.1 Pro by Dark Side of the Moon heavily utilize the output of OpenAI GPT-6 Astra for distillation during training. The new version of DeepSeek has improved its scores in browser operation task tests. In a test of 180 real-world web page tasks in Browser Use, its scor…

Moonshot AI and DeepSeek launched new models that, according to reports, would have taken advantage of GPT-6 Astra responses for their development. The case reopens the debate on model distillation and raises questions for two Chinese laboratories seeking to compete with US systems.

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WTVB broke the news on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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