Anthropic alleges Alibaba's Qwen AI unit orchestrated a massive distillation campaign, using 25,000 fake accounts to generate 28.8 million interactions with its Claude model.
Alibaba-linked operators had over 28 million interactions with Claude in largest-ever AI distillation campaign
Jun 25, 2026
09:27 am
What's the storyUS-based artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of a massive intellectual property theft.
The company alleged that the Chinese behemoth attempted to illegally extract capabilities from its Claude AI models in what is being termed as the biggest known case of such an attempt.
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Anthropic accuses Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of using 25,000 fraudulent accounts for 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest…
In a letter sent to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren on June 10, Anthropic accused the Chinese tech giant of carrying out…
Anthropic has accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba of carrying out what it describes as the largest known attempt to extract…
The AI company says the Chinese e-commerce giant used swarms of fake accounts to illicitly “extract” the chatbot’s capabilities.
The alleged campaign generated 28.8 million queries in a large-scale model-extraction effort to replicate AI capabilities.
Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba's Qwen lab used 25,000 fake accounts to run nearly 29 million exchanges with Claude…
