Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek
TechCrunch 1 month ago 32 ● 9 sources
Anthropic released a report alleging that China-based AI labs ran escalating distillation attacks against its Claude models. Anthropic recorded nearly 200 million exchanges tied to the attacks, including a campaign from Alibaba with 151 million exchanges from May to July 2026 that peaked at about 3 million per day. As a result, Anthropic says attackers found ways to bypass its defenses and extract internal reasoning traces, increasing the amount of training material available for rivals’ smaller models.