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SemiAnalysis: Only 3.6% of Chinese AI releases included developer safety results

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SemiAnalysis analyzed 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs between 2021 and September 2026, finding that only 3.6% included safety results from the developer and just 1.1% did so at launch. The report follows a 12 September 2026 essay by Dario Amodei arguing that frontier labs must deliberately slow down.

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  1. Techmeme

    SemiAnalysis : Analysis of 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs from 2021 to September 2026: just 3.6% included safety results from the developer and only 1.1% did at launch — AI safety is on fire. On 12 September 2026, Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that frontier labs must deliberately slow …