Anthropic Accuses Alibaba Of Running 29 Million Fake Queries to Clone Claude

Training a frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model costs billions of dollars and years of research. Reproducing much of its behavior can cost a fraction of that, if you have access to enough of its outputs. That gap is what makes model distillation, a technique that trains a smaller AI system on the responses of a more powerful one, the economic problem Anthropic highlighted this week.