Key Findings Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI chatbot, has accused several Chinese AI firms, including DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI, of attempting to "distill" Claude's capabilities to train their own models. Distillation refers to the practice of training a new AI model by learning from the outputs of an existing model, rather than using the original training data. Anthropic claims these Chinese firms engaged in coordinated, large-scale efforts to access Claud
