After OpenAI, Anthropic warns US government on China; says Chinese AI models are stealing our data and the speed …

AI giant Anthropic has accused three of China’s largest AI labs — DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI of ‘illicitly’ using its Claude model outputs to train their own systems. According to a report by Business Insider, in a statement Anthropic said that these Chinese albs orchestrated industrial-scale distillation campaigns, creating roughly 24,000 fraudulent Claude accounts that generated more than 16 million exchanges in violation of its terms of service and regional restrictions. For those unaware, distillation is a process where smaller model is trained on the outputs of a larger one, is widely used in AI development. However, Anthropic argues that its Chinese rivals are exploiting the practice to steal capabilities at a fraction of the time and cost it would take to build independently.

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