Anthropic Accuses Alibaba's Qwen of Largest Claude Distillation
Summary
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.
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