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.
One person familiar with Goldman’s move said it came as a result of the US bank taking a strict interpretation of its contract with Anthropic following a consultation with the Silicon Valley start-up.