Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has accused three AI firms of illicitly using its large language model Claude to improve their own models in a technique known as a “distillation” attack.

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The US AI lab says DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax AI used its systems to improve their models' capabilities US artificial intelligence lab Anthropic's allegation that Chinese AI firms were ...

The AI company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used fraudulent accounts and proxy services to extract Claude’s ...

Anthropic alleges Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used fake accounts to distill Claude, raising new concerns about AI model theft, proxies and U.S. export controls.

DeepSeek and two other Chinese artificial intelligence ‘laboratories’ have allegedly launched “industrial-scale campaigns” to steal core capabilities from Anthropic’s Claude model, marking a ...

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Anthropic says the campaign led to "over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts." ...

"These campaigns are growing in intensity and sophistication," Anthropic said as part of its lengthy statement.

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude’s AI capabilities, as U.S.

The allegations mirror those made by OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve AI models.

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