America's powerful AI models are deemed national security assets, with China accused of stealing them through "distillation."

The AI company says the Chinese e-commerce giant used swarms of fake accounts to illicitly “extract” the chatbot’s capabilities.

America's powerful AI models are deemed national security assets, with China accused of stealing them through "distillation."

"These distillation attacks are carried out illicitly, systematically, and at industrial scale..."

Anthropic said in the letter that distillation is a way to help accelerate China's ability to reach Anthropic's advanced Mythos Preview capabilities.

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.

Anthropic said the Chinese company interacted with Claude millions of times through 25,000 fraudulent accounts in recent months.

Anthropic called for more coordination between tthe AI sector and the government to tackle the problem of "illiciit distillation" of their products.

In a letter sent to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren on June 10, Anthropic accused the Chinese tech giant of carrying out what it described as...

Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million Claude exchanges.

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of the largest known AI distillation attack using 28.8 million exchanges through 25,000 fake accounts, urging Congress to tighten

Says activity uses "distillation attacks" to copy model behaviour; effort targets Claude’s advanced reasoning capabilities.