{"id":365572,"date":"2026-02-23T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.co\/?p=365572"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:29:01","slug":"anthropic-deepseek-minimax-train-models-claude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/anthropic-deepseek-minimax-train-models-claude","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Alleges DeepSeek, MiniMax Trained Models With Claude"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column]\n<\/p><div class=\"verdict-box inform-box\" data-eventcategory=\"verdictbox\" data-component=\"verdict-box\" data-total-positions=\"3\">\n\n <div class=\"verdict-box-wrap inform-box-wrap\">\n <h3 class=\"verdict-box-title\">Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n \n <div class=\"verdict-box-info\">\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropic alleges that three Chinese AI companies <strong>fraudulently trained their models<\/strong> on Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude model.<\/li>\n<li>Together, the campaign included <strong>over 16 million exchanges <\/strong>from about 24,000 accounts, Anthropic says.<\/li>\n<li>Rival OpenAI has also <strong>accused DeepSeek<\/strong> of this type of &ldquo;distillation.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"verdict-box-footer inform-box-buttons\">\n <div class=\"container\">\n <div class=\"row\">\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n[vc_column_text css=&rdquo;&rdquo;]\n<p>AI might be eating its own, as <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/how-much-does-claude-ai-cost\"><strong>Anthropic<\/strong><\/a> says that three China-based AI companies &mdash; DeepSeek, MiniMax Group Inc., and Moonshot &mdash; all violated the terms of service for Anthropic&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/what-is-claude-ai-anthropic\"><strong>Claude AI<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic claims that its AI rivals have prompted Claude for a combined total of over 16 million times across thousands of fraudulent accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, allegedly, was to train and improve their own AI models using Claude&rsquo;s responses, a process called &ldquo;distillation&rdquo; in the AI business.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime;][vc_column_text css=&rdquo;&rdquo;]<\/p>\n<h2>Over 16 million Exchanges From 24,000 Accounts<\/h2>\n<p>Writing in a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/detecting-and-preventing-distillation-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a>, Anthropic said that the &ldquo;industrial-scale campaigns&rdquo; from the three AI laboratories generated &ldquo;over 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts, in violation of our terms of service and regional access restrictions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The three labs weren&rsquo;t equaling invested in Claude distillations, according to Anthropic, which claims in its post that <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.co\/news\/what-is-deepseek\"><strong>DeepSeek<\/strong><\/a> generated &ldquo;over 150,000 exchanges&rdquo; with Claude, while Moonshot AI generated &ldquo;over 3.4 million&rdquo; and MiniMax generated &ldquo;over 13 million.&rdquo;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&rdquo;]<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"js-aw-brand-link\" href=\"https:\/\/compare.tech.co\/software-deals-live\/\" data-feed=\"XuPuf49GEEm4y0PaIQDZ0dEjkEf760Vv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-333457\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tech.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/18114043\/About-Techco-video.jpg\" alt=\"About Tech.co Video Thumbnail Showing Lead Writer Conor Cawley Smiling Next to Tech.co Logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><\/a><strong>This just in! View<\/strong><br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/compare.tech.co\/software-deals-live\/\">the top business tech deals<\/a> for 2026 &#128104;&zwj;&#128187;<br>\n<\/strong><a class=\"js-aw-brand-link\" href=\"https:\/\/compare.tech.co\/software-deals-live\/\" data-feed=\"XuPuf49GEEm4y0PaIQDZ0dEjkEf760Vv\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-348272 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tech.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/09122654\/ok-1.png\" alt=\"See the list button\" width=\"200\" height=\"85\"><\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&rdquo;&rdquo;]\n<p>Ever since DeepSeek launched its competitive and affordable R1 model in 2025, China has paved the way for many more text, video, and image AI models that cost far less than their US alternatives, undercutting software adaptation. 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