DeepSeek and Moonshot relied heavily on OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train their latest models, The Information reports

Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train their latest models, The Information reported on 28 October, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter, according to Reuters.

The models named are Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, released the week before, and DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash 1017, launched on 17 October, Reuters reports. Training one model on the answers of a stronger one is called distillation. US labs treat it as a way for rivals to copy their models' capabilities.

Reuters adds background: in a 30 September post, OpenAI linked a core part of a distillation campaign that began in July to people associated with Moonshot AI, and Anthropic said earlier this month that new measures had cut the data harvested in distillation attacks on Claude by about 90% to 99%.

OpenAI, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The Next Web, which also covered the report, says it has not independently verified it. This is The Information's reporting, not an established fact.

• Reported DeepSeek and Moonshot relied heavily on GPT-6 Astra's outputs to train their latest models, The Information reported, according to Reuters. The Information, via Reuters (WTVB)
• Reported The Next Web reports the claim about the two labs' newest models and says it has not independently verified it. The Next Web