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Anthropic Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used 24,000 Fake Accounts to Rip Off Claude

Anthropic disclosed that three Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to conduct over 16 million interactions with its Claude models, targeting reasoning, coding and tool‑use capabilities. The coordinated distillation attacks extracted large‑scale training data, effectively stealing years of research and billions of dollars of investment. Anthropic traced the activity through IP, metadata and payment patterns, highlighting sophisticated proxy networks that bypassed its China access ban. The company framed the theft as a national‑security issue and called for industry‑wide defenses and policy action.