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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of 'illicitly' accessing AI models

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Anthropic has accused Alibaba of illicitly accessing and extracting capabilities from its Claude AI models through an extensive adversarial distillation campaign, describing it as the largest cloning effort to date. The alleged activity involved thousands of accounts accessing the model tens of thousands of times between April and June. Following the accusation, Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares dropped about five percent, contributing to a 33 percent year-to-date decline.

Written from all 4 reports below, not from any single one.

How it was reported

  1. Hacker News·
    Anthropic accuses Alibaba of 'illicitly' accessing AI models
  2. Hacker News·
    Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
  3. TechMeme·
    Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
  4. The Next Web·
    Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude
  5. TechMeme·
    Alibaba falls ~5% in Hong Kong after Anthropic accused it of "illicitly" accessing its AI models, taking its YTD fall to 33%; Xiaomi and Baidu fell 3%+ (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)

    Alibaba's shares fell 5% in Hong Kong. Anthropic accused Alibaba of accessing its AI models illicitly. Alibaba's year-to-date fall is 33%.

  6. Ars Technica·
    Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

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