Foreign Media: Chinese tech giant Alibaba has issued an order prohibiting employees from using Anthropic's programming assistant Claude Code at work, opting instead for its self-developed platform Qoder.
This move stems from the discovery that the tool previously contained an embedded identification mechanism capable of collecting users' time zone and network proxy information to identify those associated with China. An Anthropic employee responded by stating that this feature was an experimental measure introduced in March, aimed at preventing unauthorized reselling and the "distillation" replication of model capabilities.
Last month, Anthropic sent a letter to U.S. senators accusing Alibaba of improperly acquiring its AI technology through "distillation"—a process involving using outputs from its advanced models to train weaker models—thereby accelerating its technological catch-up.
Insiders indicate that such restrictions are difficult to enforce on individual users, but enterprises are more cautious due to compliance concerns. Currently, Chinese AI companies are rapidly shifting toward self-developed and open-source models (such as DeepSeek and Tongyi Qianwen), and the technological competition and regulatory rivalry between China and the United States in the field of artificial intelligence continue to evolve.
Original Source: toutiao.com/article/1869703985059904/
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