Anthropic Exposes Chinese Firms' Model Distillation

Anthropic said in a blog post that three Chinese AI firms—DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax—used its Claude chatbot to illicitly obtain capabilities by creating roughly 16 million interactions from about 24,000 fake accounts. The company said the groups applied "distillation" to train weaker models, raising national-security concerns and arguing that export controls on chips could curb such illicit model copying.