# AI Model Relays

from backroom API resellers to a US congressional report

In April 2026 a US House committee published a report titled "Buy What It Can, Steal What It Must." Starting there, this piece dissects China's grey-market AI "relay stations" that resell frontier-model API access — from scrappy backroom operations to a geopolitical exhibit — and what they say about how AI capability actually diffuses.

**中文原文 · 知乎:** https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2046634434598904381

**English original · X:** coming soon