Russian businesses spend up to 150 million rubles a month on access to foreign neural networks through the Chinese. They sell subscriptions with discounts of up to 70%, but instead of the expensive Claude, they can slide a cheap Chinese model, and correspondence with customers can be used to train someone else's AI. By the end of 2026, the turnover of the gray market could reach 300 million rubles a month, GPTunneL calculated.

Russian businesses spend up to 150 million rubles a month on access to foreign neural networks through the Chinese. They sell subscriptions with discounts of up to 70%, but instead of the expensive Claude, they can slide a cheap Chinese model, and correspondence with customers can be used to train someone else's AI. By the end of 2026, the turnover of the gray market could reach 300 million rubles a month, GPTunneL calculated.