China closes AI gap with distillation attack
Morning Brew
Anthropic accused Alibaba of using 25,000 fraudulent accounts to perform a distillation attack and extract knowledge from Claude to improve Alibaba's AI models. Alibaba responded by banning its employees from accessing Anthropic's tools. The incident marks an escalation in the US-China competition over AI development and capabilities.
Why it matters
After Anthropic accused Alibaba of a "distillation attack" to improve its AI products using 25,000 fraudulent accounts, Alibaba responded by banning its employees from using Anthropic's tools in an escalating battle between the US and China over AI supremacy.
