China's star AI labs routed user requests to Claude at least 35 million times in the summer: Anthropic

Business Insider | 11-09-2026 07:32am |

Anthropic has accused several leading Chinese AI laboratories of carrying out large-scale distillation attacks on its Claude model. The company said Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Zhipu and Xiaomi collectively launched nearly 190 million such attacks between May and July. Distillation attacks involve using the outputs of advanced AI models to train and improve less advanced systems. Anthropic said it is strengthening its safeguards in response to the activity.

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