Development
Gray-market resellers sell a frontier model at a tenth of list price
Claim
Chinese developers are routing through gray-market transfer stations that resell Anthropic's models at 10% of list price, with the logs traded onward for everything from training data to fraud.
Reported metric: 10% of list
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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