Anthropic says Chinese AI labs Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used millions of queries to systematically extract Claude's capabilities and train their own models.
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Feb 23, 2026
Anthropic says it has caught Chinese AI labs Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax running large-scale distillation attacks on Claude, a technique where a weaker model learns from the output of a stronger one. Over 24,000 fake accounts fired off more than 16 million queries targeting Claude's reasoning, programming, and tool usage capabilities. The labs used proxy services to bypass China's access restrictions.
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Anthropic reveals Alibaba-linked Moonshot AI and two other Chinese labs created 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million interactions…
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The alleged campaign generated 28.8 million queries in a large-scale model-extraction effort to replicate AI capabilities.
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