--- title: Chinese AI Companies Are Using This Trick To Steal Model... description: Anthropic published a blog post accusing three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Minimax — of running a coordinated campaign to steal model... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chinese-ai-companies-are-using-this-trick-to-steal-model-data-sw4iopjcv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Chinese AI Companies Are Using This Trick To Steal Model Data | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic published a blog post accusing three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Minimax — of running a coordinated campaign to steal model... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chinese-ai-companies-are-using-this-trick-to-steal-model-data-sw4iopjcv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sw4iOpjCV.png og:image:alt: Chinese AI Companies Are Using This Trick To Steal Model Data 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. # Chinese AI Companies Are Using This Trick To Steal Model Data **[Matt Wolfe](https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic published a blog post accusing three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Minimax — of running a coordinated campaign to steal model capabilities through knowledge distillation. The technique involves querying a target model millions of times to capture both its final responses and chain-of-thought reasoning, effectively training a new 'student' model on the 'teacher' model's outputs without permission. The piece highlights the irony that Anthropic itself trains on internet data scraped without explicit consent, raising questions about the credibility of their complaint. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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