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The speaker suspects some Chinese companies use router services that enable people in China to access U.S. frontier models otherwise blocked in China.
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“Some of the Chinese companies are probably using these router services,”
“which are designed to allow people in China to use the U.S. frontier models,”
“which would otherwise be blocked in China.”20:53Report a misattribution
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