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Chinese proxies for foreign AI models generate $100-150 million monthly, Frank Media reports

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The turnover of services providing businesses access to foreign AI models through Chinese proxies reached 100-150 million rubles per month by August 2026, according to Frank Media. The turnover of legal aggregators was estimated at 700 million rubles per month as of August, a representative of the GPTunneL aggregator told Frank Media. The growth of the gray market is linked to high business demand for advanced foreign models, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex, according to Frank Media. According to Nikolay Nikitin, a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Institute at ITMO University, developers can disable accounts of intermediaries.

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  • Frank Media

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  • 3DNews

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