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title: "Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/anthropic-says-seven-china-based-ai-labs-ran-industrial-scale-claude-7c027cee
published: 2026-09-11T16:15:29.000Z
byline: "Source: The Hacker News"
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# Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

Source: The Hacker News · Published 2026-09-11 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/anthropic-says-seven-china-based-ai-labs-ran-industrial-scale-claude-7c027cee

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of a "teacher" to

In this story: [Alibaba](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/alibaba), [Moonshot AI](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/moonshot-ai), [Z.ai](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/z-ai), [Model distillation](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/model-distillation), [MiniMax](https://frontiernewswire.com/companies/minimax)

## Sources

- [Read the original at The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/anthropic-says-seven-china-based-ai.html)

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