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Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
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Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities

BBC Business · Jun 25, 2026, 3:12 AM · Also reported by 4 other sources

Key takeaways

  • US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracting its Claude AI model's capabilities.
  • Anthropic urged Congress to penalise the companies behind attacks like this and to ramp up measures to prevent US tech from being stolen.
  • The BBC has contacted Alibaba for comment and requested more details from Anthropic.

Bloomberg via Getty Images Image caption, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

US artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused Chinese e-commerce and technology firm Alibaba of "brazenly" and "illicitly" extracting its Claude AI model's capabilities.

In a letter seen by the BBC, the San Francisco-based company said operators linked to Alibaba carried out almost 29 million exchanges with Claude using thousands of fraudulent accounts in what it called the largest extraction campaign of its kind.

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