Overview
- Anthropic alleges DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax used roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million exchanges with Claude to train rival systems.
- MiniMax is accused of running the largest operation with over 13 million exchanges, with campaigns targeting advanced reasoning, coding and tool use.
- The company says it attributed the activity using IP correlations, request metadata and infrastructure signals, and that the labs routed traffic through commercial proxy services to evade geofencing.
- Anthropic reports it has disrupted known access points, deployed behavioral fingerprinting, and shared indicators with U.S. government partners, while noting no evidence of direct Chinese government coordination.
- OpenAI and Google have recently reported similar model‑extraction attempts, the named firms had not provided substantive responses in the covered reporting, and Anthropic has not announced lawsuits.