Goldman Sachs has stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic’s AI models, in the latest sign of how the emerging technology is brushing up against US-China tensions.Employees of the Wall Street bank in the Chinese territory were unable to access Claude models either directly or via the in-house artificial intelligence platforms as of a few weeks ago, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
Western AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Claude are banned in mainland China as part of the so-called Great Firewall. But Hong Kong has long operated mostly outside of Chinese censors and restrictions on usage are imposed by the US AI companies themselves.