US EditionAnthropic Says Chinese AI Labs Used 24,000 Fake Accounts to Copy Claude
Anthropic claims three Chinese AI labs used 24,000 fake accounts to generate 16 million interactions with Claude, raising national security and export control concerns.
- Earlier this month, Anthropic accused three Chinese AI companies of creating more than 24,000 fake accounts and generating over 16 million exchanges with Claude via distillation, targeting its agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding.
- As U.S. officials debate export rules, Anthropic says extraction scale requires advanced AI chips, linking this to last month’s Trump administration decision allowing Nvidia and other U.S. vendors to export chips to China.
- Analysis of individual labs found Moonshot AI ran more than 3.4 million exchanges, MiniMax logged 13 million and redirected nearly half its traffic, while DeepSeek conducted over 150,000 exchanges.
- Anthropic urged a coordinated response across the AI industry, cloud providers, and policymakers, warning distillation-built models risk national security and pledging to invest in defenses.
- Looking ahead, Anthropic says export controls are justified as restricted chip access limits illicit distillation, while DeepSeek is expected to soon release DeepSeek V4 and TechCrunch plans a June 9, 2026 event.
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By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises national security concerns. The Chinese unicorns – DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot AI – created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and trained their models using over 16 million exchanges with Claude, a process known as distillatio…
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and 2 other Chinese AI models of stealing its data, people on internet say it is fair
Anthropic alleges three Chinese AI firms used thousands of fake accounts and millions of exchanges to extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, raising concerns about intellectual property, security, and the use of distillation techniques within global AI competition.
The American start-up founded in 2021 and valued 380 billion dollars is on all fronts. While on Monday it accused its Chinese rivals of siphoning its data, its ethical posture also places it in the viewer of the Trump administration.
Anthropic Says DeepSeek, MiniMax Distilled AI Models for Gains
Anthropic PBC said three leading artificial intelligence developers in China worked to “illicitly extract” results from its AI models to bolster the capabilities of rival products, adding to growing concerns in the US about Chinese firms improperly gaining an edge.
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