How China’s Token Resellers Create an Anthropic Gray Market

The Information | 02-10-2026 02:11pm |

In Beijing's Haidian District, an office building houses multiple tenants selling access to Anthropic's Claude and other U.S. AI models to Chinese customers. Anthropic does not offer its services in China due to national security concerns, but demand for Claude tokens remains high. The company has accused Chinese AI labs of conducting an industrial-scale, covert campaign to extract its models' capabilities using fake or stolen accounts, credit cards, and identities.

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