[The Information] OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, the most powerful model the company has released, has drawn strong demand since its early-September launch, and one growing customer base is Chinese AI labs seeking to extract its capabilities. DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, two of China's leading AI developers, relied heavily on outputs from Astra when training their latest models, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The practice, known in the industry as distillation, remains one of the biggest contributors to progress by Chinese open-weight models despite repeated criticism from OpenAI and rival Anthropic, according to The Information.