Anthropic accuses Alibaba of ‘illicitly’ accessng Claude AI model

The AI startup told US officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to access Claude’s advanced capabilities Stickers for Claude software on a laptop at Anthropic PBC’s Code with Claude developer conference in London | Image: Bloomberg Bloomberg Listen to This Article By Maggie Eastland Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” access its Claude artificial intelligence model using thousands of fraudulent accounts that undermine the US AI developer’s decision to keep its products out of China. Anthropic claimed that a campaign by operators…