Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Anthropic said the campaign used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million Claude exchanges to train Alibaba’s models, and it urged new U.S. restrictions.
- On Wednesday, Anthropic sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs accusing Alibaba of "brazenly" and "illicitly" attempting to extract its artificial intelligence capabilities, CNBC confirmed.
- Addressed to Sen. Tim Scott and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the letter detailed 28.8 million exchanges from roughly 25,000 fraudulent accounts, describing it as "the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date."
- Anthropic wrote that Alibaba "ignored the Trump Administration's warnings" while proceeding with the campaign, following February reports identifying three similar "industrial-scale" distillation campaigns from DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax.
- Earlier this month, Anthropic received a Trump Administration export control directive suspending access to Claude models Fable and Mythos for foreign nationals, though the company told CNBC that "both parties are working quickly to get this resolved."
- An Anthropic spokesperson said, "We believe combating the threat of illicit distillation requires coordinated action between government and industry," noting the company will continue working with Congress and the Administration to maintain American AI leadership.
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The AI startup Anthropic is making serious accusations against the Chinese Alibaba Group. The dispute between the companies could also spread to politics.
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Attempting to Steal Claude AI Secrets Using 25,000 Fake Accounts
Anthropic has launched a serious accusation against Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, alleging the company orchestrated the largest known 'distillation' attack on its artificial intelligence systems. The San Francisco-based firm claims that operators connected to Alibaba's Qwen AI division used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to bombard its Claude chatbot with over 28 million queries between late April and early June 2026. This development mar…
Anthropic acuses Alibaba of illicitly accessing its AI
Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly accessing its Claude AI model, the latest in a number of new fronts in the US-China tech rivalry. The AI firm said the Chinese e-commerce giant had created fake accounts to get past restrictions to carry out “distillation attacks,” using Claude’s responses to train Alibaba models. The allegations come after the Chinese company this week sued the Pentagon to be removed from a blacklist of firms allegedly lin…
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