--- title: "Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running largest distillation campaign against Claude" url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-running-largest-distillation-campaign-against-claude-0mhntvjwt source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-distillation-claude-qwen type: article source: "The Next Web" published: 2026-06-24T22:11:38.665Z updated: 2026-06-25T00:20:07.992Z tags: ["claude", "anthropic", "alibaba", "ai-regulation"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 11 comments: 6 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running largest distillation campaign against Claude **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 11 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Anthropic has accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of orchestrating the largest known model distillation campaign against a US AI company, using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct approximately 29 million exchanges with Claude between April and June 2026. The campaign targeted Claude's software engineering and agentic reasoning capabilities. This exceeds the combined volume of earlier alleged distillation attacks by DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI. Anthropic sent a letter to US senators and White House officials urging coordinated government-industry action, including antitrust clarifications, export controls on AI chips, and penalties for distillation. Lawmakers are drafting legislation to sanction Chinese firms found improperly accessing US AI model outputs. The accusations come as Anthropic prepares for an IPO and is simultaneously fighting a separate US government export restriction on its own Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, placing the company in a complex political position. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@fabianletsch** · 12 upvotes > In Kindergarten there are three children, one has made a fun toy (copyrighted material), another took the toy and made a toy replication machine out of it without the first kids permission. The third kid replicated the toy creation machine by looking at it. The second kid is now accusing the third kid of theft. > > > I wouldn't shout too loud if I were the second kid. > > They've shouted before about the dangers of their favorite toy and the teacher took it away from them, lets see what happens if they shout too much this time. **@brandonsturgeon** · 4 upvotes > So the thief becomes the crybaby! **@petecapecod** · 3 upvotes > I mean we all knew this was happening, but this is taking it to another level. 25k fake accounts, yeah that's no mistake lol **@tahtackle** · 2 upvotes > The irony would be delicious if the aftertaste wasn't so bitter. **@akashskypatel** · 1 upvotes > this is hilarious to say the least... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Anthropic accuses Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude AI](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-using-25-000-fake-accounts-to-scrape-claude-ai-wxxhratg1) · InfoWorld · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#anthropic](https://daily.dev/tags/anthropic), [#alibaba](https://daily.dev/tags/alibaba), [#ai-regulation](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-regulation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-accuses-alibaba-of-running-largest-distillation-campaign-against-claude-0mhntvjwt)