Anthropic discovered Chinese AI laboratories conducting a large-scale ‘unauthorized distillation’ operation.

Anthropic discovered Chinese AI laboratories conducting a large-scale 'unauthorized distillation' operation.

Anthropic has reported that it intercepted significant unauthorized attempts by various Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek, to exploit its Claude model in order to train their own AI systems. This incident marks one of the largest known “illicit distillation” efforts aimed at appropriating Anthropic’s more sophisticated technology. On Thursday, Anthropic explained that […]