Former OpenAI Researcher Claims China Has Mastered All Code from Top US AI Giants, Faces Industry Ridicule

According to Watch Tower Beating monitoring, former OpenAI researcher Will Depue claimed that China has now fully taken over all GitHub repositories, Slack chat records, and internal documents of OpenAI and Anthropic. He also threatened that if he sees any "reasonably deniable" plagiarized architectures in China's open-source models, he would not be surprised.

Unable to provide any concrete evidence, Depue argued that these assessments are based mainly on his conversations with cybersecurity researchers, accusing the outside world of overestimating the defenses of cutting-edge labs. As a blogger who frequently posts outrageous remarks on social media, Depue once posted on April Fools' Day claiming he would be joining DeepSeek.

This statement quickly became a laughingstock in the AI community. AI scholar Nathan Lambert criticized cutting-edge labs for frequently making self-serving gibberish statements, pointing out that the essence of technology transfer is fundamentally achieved through talent flow in Silicon Valley, bar gatherings, and the lack of non-compete agreements. The real core advantage lies in computing power and engineering resources, not Slack chat records.

AI researcher Elie Bakouch sarcastically responded in the exact same format, saying undoubtedly, all cutting-edge labs today also have full access to the technical reports and models of DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, and MiniMax, ridiculing American cutting-edge labs for daily benefiting from China's open-source achievements while constantly falling into a persecution complex.