Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has accused Chinese tech giant Alibaba of using thousands of fake accounts to copy the capabilities of its AI chatbot, Claude.
The company claims nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts generated around 28.8 million interactions with Claude between April and June in an alleged attempt to train Alibaba’s Qwen AI models without permission.
Anthropic described it as the largest known AI “distillation” campaign and has urged US lawmakers to introduce stronger safeguards against unauthorised AI model extraction. Alibaba has not responded publicly to the allegations. The dispute highlights growing competition in the global AI industry.