Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
Summary
Anthropic has formally accused Chinese tech firm Alibaba of carrying out an industrial-scale campaign to misappropriate its Claude AI technology. In a letter to US Senators, Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-linked operators used thousands of fraudulent accounts to perform nearly 29 million exchanges, utilizing 'distillation attacks' to train their own models using Claude's intellectual property. Anthropic is urging Congress to implement stricter measures to protect US AI research from being stolen and repackaged by geopolitical competitors.
(Source:BBC News)