Anthropic: three Chinese labs used 24,000 fake accounts to learn from Claude
Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude to train their own models.
What was revealed?
Anthropic said three Chinese AI labs, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax, used about 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract data from Claude.
The technique is called distillation: a company collects a stronger model's answers and uses them to train its own model.
By the numbers
| Lab | Exchanges |
|---|---|
| DeepSeek | 150,000+ |
| Moonshot AI | 3.4 million+ |
| MiniMax | 13 million+ |
| Total | 16 million+ |
What were they after?
According to Anthropic, the labs targeted Claude's most differentiated capabilities: agentic reasoning, tool use and coding.
The chip connection
Anthropic says this kind of extraction requires access to advanced chips. The disclosure came as the U.S. debated exports of Nvidia's H200 chips to China.
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