US AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI have accused Chinese firms, including Alibaba, of illegally copying advanced AI technology through a method called "distillation," which allows cheaper and faster AI model development. This practice threatens US dominance in AI innovation and national security by enabling Chinese firms to offer near-frontier AI capabilities at much lower costs, undermining American AI business models. The US government is aware and actively briefing Congress and agencies to counter these thefts, considering new legislation and export controls to protect AI technology. The issue highlights the challenges of balancing innovation with security in the global AI race.
Anthropic has uncovered and stopped large-scale unauthorized attempts by Chinese AI companies including Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek to use its advanced AI model Claude to train their own systems. These "illicit distillation" attacks involved rero...
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Anthropic revealed that Chinese AI companies Alibaba, Moonshot, and DeepSeek engaged in unauthorized "distillation" of its Claude AI models, using outputs from Claude to train their own AI systems without permission. The largest operation involved Al...
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