Anthropic accused three Chinese AI companies of running 24,000 fraudulent accounts to siphon capabilities from its Claude chatbot, in what may be the largest documented case of AI model theft to date.DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, violating terms of service and geographic access restrictions. The labs used a technique called distillation, where a weaker model trains on the outputs of a stronger one, to extract Claude’s most advanced reasoning, coding and t ...