Anthropic accuses China’s AI labs of industrial-scale theft (opens original article in a new tab)

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of large-scale theft of its Claude AI model through fraudulent accounts, targeting key capabilities like software engineering and agentic reasoning, and reported the issue to US officials.

• Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of using thousands of fraudulent accounts to access its Claude AI model
• The campaign targeted Claude's capabilities in software engineering and agentic reasoning
• Anthropic sent a letter to US senators and White House officials about the alleged theft
• Alibaba is a Chinese technology giant