June 24 : Anthropic accused Alibaba, the Chinese technology and e-commerce giant, of illicitly extracting its Claude AI model capabilities, calling it the largest known distillation attack on the company to date, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba's Qwen lab used 25,000 fake accounts to run nearly 29 million exchanges with Claude between April and June.

Anthropic reveals Alibaba-linked Moonshot AI and two other Chinese labs created 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million interactions to extract Claude's AI