# The firms are sharing information through the Frontier Model Forum, an industry non-profit that the three tech firms founded with Microsoft Corp.

*genai · news · 2026-04-07 · Hindustan Times*

## Key points

- US AI firms are sharing data on adversarial distillation via the Frontier Model Forum.
- OpenAI accused Chinese firm DeepSeek of using distillation to replicate its proprietary models.
- Anthropic identified DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax as extracting capabilities from its Claude model.
- US AI companies face legal uncertainty about information sharing due to antitrust concerns.
- Distilled models often lack safety guardrails, raising national security risks according to US labs.

**Companies:** Microsoft Corp., OpenAI, Google, Anthropic
**Countries:** United States, China

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