Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (opens in new tab)

Here's what is happening:Chinese resellers are offering Claude tokens at 70-90% below official Anthropic API prices. They achieve this by reselling capacity from pooled Claude Max accounts, payments fraud, and also reselling the model output & reasoning chains to various Chinese labs. They are subsidizing model access in exchange for user logs and reasoning traces, which they then sell as training data, allowing them to operate below cost.Claude and ChatGPT are both blocked in China. You need...