United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises national security concerns.
The Chinese unicorns – DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot AI – created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and trained their models using over 16 million exchanges with Claude, a process known as distillation, Anthropic alleged in a Monday blogpost.
CNN has reached out to DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot AI for comment.
Distillation is a common method of training in the AI industry with frontier labs often distilling their own models to make cheaper versions