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  1. Jun 24, 2026AIAnthropic Accuses Alibaba of Largest-Ever Attempt to Distill Claude's Capabilities28.8M exchanges→
  2. Jun 24, 2026AIAlibaba's Model Never Trained as an Agent -- Yet Beat Agent Benchmarks Across Seven Tests→
  3. Jun 22, 2026AIAlibaba's AI Video Model Climbs to No. 2 Globally as Sora and Seedance Fade→

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Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Largest-Ever Attempt to Distill Claude's Capabilities

Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting capabilities from its Claude models in what it called the largest known attack of its kind, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The campaign ran from April 22 to June 5, generating more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude across nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts, in what Anthropic describes as a distillation effort to accelerate China toward its frontier 'Mythos' capabilities.

Jun 24, 2026
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Alibaba's Model Never Trained as an Agent -- Yet Beat Agent Benchmarks Across Seven Tests

Alibaba researchers showed a model that was never explicitly trained for agentic tasks but still improved agent performance across seven benchmarks. The result challenges the assumption that strong agentic behavior requires dedicated, expensive agent-specific training -- a potentially significant efficiency unlock.

Jun 24, 2026
AI

Alibaba's AI Video Model Climbs to No. 2 Globally as Sora and Seedance Fade

Alibaba's AI video generation model has risen to No. 2 in global rankings, overtaking OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance, according to VentureBeat. The leap underscores how quickly Chinese labs are closing -- and in some categories leading -- the gap with US frontier players in generative media.

Jun 22, 2026
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