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Anthropic alleges Chinese AI firms conduct large-scale distillation attacks

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Anthropic has detailed sophisticated distillation attacks originating from Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba Group, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek. These attacks aim to extract proprietary reasoning capabilities from Anthropic's Claude models to train smaller, competing models. The company observed nearly 200 million exchanges linked to these attacks, with one campaign attributed to Alibaba being the largest wholesale distillation effort ever recorded. Moonshot AI's campaign, in particular, appeared to route requests from the Chinese military, targeting Claude's Opus model. AI

IMPACT Highlights the escalating security challenges in frontier model development and the potential for intellectual property theft.

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. TechCrunch AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Russell Brandom ·

    Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

    A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation att

    Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified. htt…

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  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · aitools2u ·

    🤖 【TechCrunch AI】Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent

    🤖 【TechCrunch AI】Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which h... # AI # TechNews 🔗 https:// techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/anth …

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