--- title: Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US... description: Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — of creating over 24,000 fake accounts to conduct large-scale... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-accuses-chinese-ai-labs-of-mining-claude-as-us-debates-ai-chip-exports-h1yzjoxni twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — of creating over 24,000 fake accounts to conduct large-scale... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-accuses-chinese-ai-labs-of-mining-claude-as-us-debates-ai-chip-exports-h1yzjoxni og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/H1YzjoxnI.png og:image:alt: Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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 Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — of creating over 24,000 fake accounts to conduct large-scale distillation attacks against its Claude model, generating more than 16 million exchanges to extract capabilities in agentic reasoning, tool use, and coding. The accusations arrive amid ongoing U.S. debates over AI chip export controls to China. Anthropic argues that these attacks reinforce the case for stricter chip export restrictions, since the scale of distillation requires access to advanced hardware. The company also warns that models built through illicit distillation may lack safety guardrails, posing national security risks including potential misuse for bioweapons development or cyberattacks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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