SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic accused Alibaba of conducting a 'distillation attack' on Claude. We asked @ClementDelangue his thoughts: 'Dis…

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic accused Alibaba of conducting a "distillation attack" on Claude. We asked @ClementDelangue his thoughts: "Distillation is a very common practice that everyone is using. I wouldn't be surprised if Anthropic used distillation in the past for some of their models." "If you stop distillation tomorrow, the Chinese labs won't go down and disappear because they're still gonna be good at training models. It's not really gonna change the game." "It's hard for me to accept this one because frankly Anthropic, OpenAI, they've been the fastest growing companies in the world. They've become overnight trillion dollar companies." "It's hard for me to say, 'Oh, poor Anthropic, poor OpenAI, you're getting unfairly competed with,' when you are the fastest growing, soon to be biggest company in the world. I think competition has been okay for them." "I think they need more competition than less competition. Because we're heading towards a world where a few companies are completely dominating, concentrating all power, all capabilities, all wealth. And that's much more dangerous than them maybe losing a couple billion dollars of revenue." Media SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic has disclosed to the U.S. Government that Alibaba executed the largest known distillation attack on Claude to date, generating 28.8 million exchanges through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts between April and June 2026.

Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-06-26