Anthropic says Alibaba tried to copy Claude’s abilities
Anthropic told U.S. officials that a Qwen research group linked to Alibaba tried to take Claude’s abilities without . According to Anthropic, the group created about 25,000 fake accounts and held more than 28.8 million conversations with Claude from late April to early June 2026.
The targets were advanced skills such as coding, long task handling, and . Anthropic says this broke its terms of service and looked like a , where one model’s answers are used to help another model copy its abilities without paying the full research and training cost. Anthropic asked U.S.
lawmakers to tighten access to American AI technology and chips for Chinese AI labs and to punish this kind of behavior. Alibaba did not comment on the allegation.
Key points
- Anthropic says an Alibaba-linked Qwen group tried to extract Claude’s abilities without .
- The alleged campaign used about 25,000 fake accounts and more than 28.8 million Claude conversations.
- The targeted skills included coding, long task handling, and .
- Anthropic described the behavior as a and asked U.S. lawmakers for stronger rules.
- Alibaba did not comment on the allegation.