Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off (Grace Kay/The Information)

<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-went-chasing-anthropic-powering"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260605/i22.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260605/p22#a260605p22" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Grace Kay / <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-went-chasing-anthropic-powering">Sources say xAI used Claude models for distillation and training, including using personal accounts and the intermediary service Blackbox AI after being cut off</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; SpaceX's AI lab has had a chaotic year so far, churning through leaders and staff before bringing in outside help in an effort to catch up to Anthropic in coding.</p>