Alibaba bans Claude for staff – Anthropic didn’t want them using it anyway
Alibaba bans Claude for staff – Anthropic didn’t want them using it anyway
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba has ordered staff to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code, after it was found to be flagging users connecting from China. But Anthropic is already trying its best to stop Chinese firms from using Claude at all, and accuses Alibaba of running large “distillation” campaigns against it, saying it deployed around 25,000 fake accounts to train its own models on Claude.
Technology Editor Peter O’Brien explains what’s behind the beef between the two leading AI companies.
