https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/how-chinese-ai-firms-tried-to-clone-u-s-ai-modelsContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/how-chinese-ai-firms-tried-to-clone-u-s-ai-modelshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/how-chinese-ai-firms-tried-to-clone-u-s-ai-models#u66746Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:22:55 +0000Anthropic claims Chinese AI laboratories used millions of exchanges from its Claude model to train their own systems. The company identifies Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek as participants in these distillation campaigns. Anthropic specifically alleges that Moonshot and DeepSeek secretly diverted user requests to Claude to generate the training data. Despite these disputes over model cloning, China has indicated a willingness to engage in AI discussions with the United States.Why it mattersModel distillation allows smaller models to mimic the performance of larger frontier models by trainin