Anthropic Accuses Alibaba's Qwen of Largest Claude Distillation

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Anthropic alleged that Alibaba's Qwen lab used nearly 25,000 fake accounts to run 29 million Claude model exchanges, surpassing all prior distillation campaigns, prompting U.S. senators to consider legislation sanctioning Chinese firms for unauthorized access to AI model outputs.

TL;DR • Anthropic told Congress that Alibaba's Qwen lab used nearly 25,000 fake accounts to run 29 million Claude exchanges between April and June 2026. • The Alibaba-linked campaign reportedly exceeded the combined prior distillation activity of DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI. • Senators Bill Hagerty and Andy Kim plan to introduce legislation to sanction Chinese firms improperly accessing US AI model outputs. The reported scale exceeds previous distillation campaigns combined. In February, Anthropic said DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI had collectively generated over 16 million exchanges using about 24,000 fake accounts. The Alibaba-linked operation reportedly surpassed all three of those combined. Source : https://aiweekly.co/node/3672
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