Anthropic Says Alibaba-Linked Operators Used 25,000 Accounts to Mine Claude for Qwen
The Claude maker says the April-to-June campaign produced 28.8 million exchanges and targeted coding and agentic reasoning.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Anthropic is turning model distillation from a terms-of-service dispute into a policy fight over who can access US frontier AI, how cloud accounts are verified, and whether cheaper Chinese models are competing on original capability or harvested outputs.
Dario Amodei's Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude capabilities between April 22nd and June 5th, 2026, according to a June 10th letter described by Bloomberg and separately seen by Reuters.…
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