Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Using Claude Outputs to Train Qwen
Daniel Newman criticized claims by Anthropic that Chinese AI labs used U.S. frontier models to accelerate their systems, calling it “freaking insane.” Anthropic’s threat report alleges illicit distillation, including that Alibaba used Claude outputs to help train its Qwen models and for reinforcement learning and model-architecture research, prompting Newman’s challenge to how independently such work is developed.