Anthropic urges penalties for Alibaba over alleged largest Claude model-cloning campaign
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Anthropic alleges Alibaba's Qwen team ran a large-scale Claude distillation campaign, prompting calls for US legislation to penalize Chinese labs and tighten access to US models, advanced chips, and offshore data centers. The headline risk increases regulatory and geopolitical uncertainty for US-listed Chinese tech and could amplify scrutiny of cross-border AI and data flows. Alibaba shares reportedly fell on the news, signaling near-term risk repricing.
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Anthropic said in a June 10 letter to U.S. Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren that Alibaba’s Qwen team carried out what it called the largest AI model-capability distillation attack it has measured. It alleged that between April 22 and June 5, operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude. Alibaba’s U.S.-listed shares fell 3% after the allegations became public. Anthropic urged Congress to pass legislation to punish such activity, including restricting Chinese companies’ access to U.S. models, advanced chips and data centers outside China.
