OpenAI, Anthropic and Google cooperate to fend off Chinese bids to clone models

Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet's Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results from cutting-edge U.S. 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 technology companies founded with Microsoft in 2023, to detect so-called adversarial distillation attempts that violate their terms of service, according to people familiar with the matter.

The rare collaboration underscores the severity of a concern raised by U.S. AI companies that some users, especially in China, are creating imitation versions of their products that could undercut them on price and siphon away customers while posing a national security risk.