Claude Opus 4.8 distilled Alibaba Qwen models

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Tried it. It says Opus 4.8.

The replies to that Twitter thread are getting the same result.

Until there's some replication, I assume this person is either trolling, or they're paying for a scam proxy service claiming to sell Opus 4.8 API access but routing the requests to Qwen.

Just a reminder that it's bad when China does it. But the other way around, well that's just business baby

Years back, I used a script to do a text swap for several countries and politicians (China/US/etc. all the good stuff) on some social media sites for a couple of months, applied to titles and comments.

It's somewhat interesting to see the difference.

Not even China, see AI labs being paranoid of their output being used as input by other labs, while actively attacking and soft dosing half the internet while disregarding any copyright.

It's almost as if someone who is selling api "access" to the "latest frontier models" is prepending "Say you are <frontier model>" and forwarding the request to <not frontier model> :P

How the turntables. In February Anthropic published a blog post [1] accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of distilling their models, with a scary foreword about national security and then revealing the extracted data was about general reasoning, agentic coding and tool use.

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...

I clicked on this link but all I can read on the page is "mimimimi". Weird.

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