Cc can be used with non Anthropic models.

> how can they still use claude?

Workarounds aside, it says Claude Code not Claude.

i.e. they are using the CLI running any model. You can for instance run GLM with it.

There is a reason Singapore tops the rank on Claude usage

Same way every ban is evaded, smurfing

Does Alibaba only have developers in the China?

Alibaba has engineers in Hongkong, Singapore, North America. It’s a global corporation

The same way they buy "banned" and "sanctioned" NVIDIA GPUs.

That’s not what a backdoor is…

Exaggerate much? If you think POTUS would lose sleep about a date format timezone marker, I don't know what to tell you.

Wait what do you mean "if"?

Yes, 100%. GLM 5.2 is capable of RSI. It's too late to stop.

I don't think China would strugle to scrape the internet for fresh data.

And they constantly publish state of the art LLM research (see DS4 context compaction and cache tech).

They have very capable tech giants. So while not being able to distill western models would probably have some impact, it's probably becoming lesser as time passes.

We might even see Western LLMs distilling Chinese models soon. If they aren't already to some extent.

China has most probably already achieved "escape velocity" on the software side. Now if they achieve parity, to some degree at least, on the hardware side with Nvidia it is very possible they'll overtake the US.

Wasn't one of the big promises the AI labs made "uncopyrighting"? Ie. the ability to reconstruct large works, including source code, without actual access to the source code? Everything from movies to operating systems.