American Artificial Intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic has accused its Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot on Thursday of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models, then showing users the responses as if they were from their own models.The new allegations mark a further escalation in US criticism of China’s AI industry practices. Earlier this week, three US government agencies, including the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), claimed that six Chinese companies were engaged in an industrial campaign to steal US model outputs, “likely with Chinese government awareness”.Beijing on Wednesday rejected those allegations, describing them as actions by Washington to suppress China’s AI industry and threatening retaliatory measures.
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Moonshot, DeepSeek secretly routed user requests to Claude, Anthropic claims
American AI company Anthropic has accused Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot of secretly routing user requests to Anthropic's Claude models and presenting the responses as their own. This accusation escalates US criticism of Chinese AI industry practices.
Vincent ChowSouth China Morning PostFiled 2026-09-10 · 23:23 GMTLean · Center-RightRead · 1 min
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American AI company Anthropic has accused Chinese AI rivals DeepSeek and Moonshot of secretly routing user requests to Anthropic's Claude models and presenting the responses as their own. This accusation escalates US criticism of Chinese AI industry practices. The allegations follow claims by US government agencies, including the NSA and FBI, that six Chinese companies are involved in stealing US model outputs, potentially with Chinese government knowledge. Beijing has denied these allegations, calling them an attempt by Washington to suppress China's AI industry and threatening retaliation.
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The allegations mark an escalation in US criticism of China’s AI industry practices.
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Beijing rejected US allegations, calling them actions to suppress China's AI industry.
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Anthropic accused DeepSeek and Moonshot of covertly routing customer requests to its Claude models.
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US government agencies claimed six Chinese companies were engaged in an industrial campaign to steal US model outputs.
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