Last Week in AI

Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Distillation Attack on Claude

Last Week in AI

Show Notes

In this episode, we cover Anthropic’s allegation that Alibaba-linked operators used nearly 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million Claude interactions in what it calls its largest known distillation attack. We also look at why model distillation is becoming a major front in the U.S.-China AI race.

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