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The speaker thinks some Chinese companies are probably using router services to provide people in China access to U.S. frontier models that would otherwise be 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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