Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of industrial-scale theft as chip export debate intensifies
Anthropic alleges three Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—created over 24,000 fake accounts to extract Claude's capabilities through 16 million exchanges. The accusations spotlight distillation techniques and fuel debates over AI chip export controls, with critics noting the irony given Anthropic's own controversial data scraping practices.