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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Collaborate to Combat Chinese AI Model Theft

The Australian Financial Review

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7 Apr 2026
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7 Apr 2026, 02:00 am

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The collaboration highlights the severity of a concern raised by US AI firms that some users, especially in China, are creating imitations of their products.

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Major AI developers are coordinating through the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial 'distillation' attempts, where external actors extract data from cutting-edge US models to train imitative systems. This collaboration addresses a critical security vulnerability regarding the leakage of frontier AI capabilities to adversarial nations, which complicates global safety efforts and proliferation controls. The focus on protecting intellectual property and model weights is a central pillar of preventing the rapid, ungoverned spread of powerful AI technologies that carry existential or catastrophic risks. Such industry-led defensive measures are increasingly relevant to global governance frameworks aimed at maintaining a lead in AI safety and security standards.

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WorldNorth AmericaAIPrint articleShirin Ghaffary and Maggie EastlandApr 7, 2026 – 11.24amRivals OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet’s Google have begun working together to clamp down on Chinese competitors that extract results from cutting-edge US artificial intelligence models to gain an edge in the global AI race.The firms are sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum, an industry nonprofit that the three tech companies, along with Microsoft, founded in 2023, to detect so-called adversarial “distillation” attempts that violate their terms of service, according to people familiar with the matter.Loading...BloombergSaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreAIUSAGoogleChinaOpenAIAnthropicMicrosoftRussiaDonald TrumpTrump diplomacyTrump's White HouseTrump's AmericaFetching latest articles