Comment by surgical_fire

And they took multiple measures presumably to stop "distillation", such as hiding reasoning steps.

Chinese models kept improving in capability regardless, and are in some ways more impressive than Claude/ChatGPT.

So yeah, I think they are bulshitters. The can create reports and send letter to congress simply because they know if allowed to compete freely the Chinese models will eventually prevail.

Also, very rich of you to mention Chinese firms record on IP theft when Anthropic and OpenAI are companies entirely built on large scale IP theft.