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The FT has confirmed that OpenAI
and Google have been selling advanced AI models to Chinese tech giants blacklisted by the Pentagon.
The US-based companies are supplying Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent with access to AI tools.
The Chinese companies get these through their Singapore subsidiaries.
This makes the sales legal,
but it exposes a gap in a US ban on AI models being used by companies with alleged ties to China's military.
OpenAI said it had cut off Alibaba from using the software that lets developers access models remotely.
Both OpenAI and Google acknowledged that Chinese-owned companies can access its models outside of China.
The news reignited calls for tighter U.S.
Regulation of AI models similar to its restrictions on exports of the chips used to train powerful models.