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Anthropic accuses Chinese AI firms of model distillation

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What happened: On February 23, Anthropic released a blog post detailing several large-scale campaigns by Chinese AI companies to illicitly take training data from US AI companies.

The post alleges that three Chinese AI companies - DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax - have launched distillation attacks...



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