Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly accessing Claude via thousands of fraudulent accounts
TL;DR
Anthropic PBC says Alibaba's Qwen AI lab conducted a large-scale campaign to illicitly access Claude using about 25,000 fraudulent accounts, totaling 28.8 million exchanges with Claude from April to June; the effort is described as the largest attempt by a Chinese company to piggyback on US AI labs, aiming to distill Claude's capabilities into a rival model. Alibaba's ADRs fell more than 3% on the Bloomberg report.
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- Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing Its AI Models Bloomberg.com
- Anthropic accuses Alibaba of campaign to 'brazenly' and 'illicitly' extract AI capabilities CNBC
- Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities Reuters
- Alibaba stock drops 3% amid accusations of ’industrial-scale’ Anthropic AI breach Yahoo Finance
- Anthropic notifies White House that Alibaba attempted to 'harvest' US AI capabilities: report (BABA:NYSE) Seeking Alpha
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