On September 5, the developer of one of the world's major large models, Claude, the company Anthropic, issued a statement announcing that "due to legal, regulatory, and security risks," it will immediately stop providing services to "Chinese-controlled companies."

According to the relevant announcement, this policy applies not only to companies in mainland China but also to subsidiaries established overseas, cloud service intermediaries, or organizations with Chinese background investment entities. In addition to China, the ban also targets multiple entities considered "adversary countries" by the United States, including Russia and Iran.

The company explicitly stated in its announcement that the related restrictions are based on its so-called "U.S. national security" considerations. The company also exaggeratedly claimed that this move is to "prevent these countries from using its model to advance their own artificial intelligence development and compete globally with technology companies headquartered in the United States and its allies."

Regarding Anthropic's related measures, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jia Kun stated on the 5th that they are not aware of the specific situation, and China has always opposed politicizing, instrumentalizing, and weaponizing science and technology and trade and economic issues, which is not beneficial to any party.

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It is introduced that Anthropic is an artificial intelligence unicorn company founded in 2021 by some former employees of OpenAI. The company's language model Claude 4 series released in May this year showed outstanding coding capabilities, gaining favor from some enterprise customers and developers in industries such as finance and healthcare. Unlike ChatGPT from OpenAI, which has attracted a large number of individual users, Anthropic mainly focuses on enterprise-level clients, with most of its $875 million annual revenue coming from sales of its enterprise product, Claude Enterprise.

At the beginning of this month, the company just completed a new round of financing, amounting to about $13 billion. After the financing, Anthropic's valuation reached $183 billion (approximately RMB 1.3 trillion), becoming the fourth-highest valued unicorn company in the world.

Media outlets such as Bloomberg and the Financial Times pointed out that although Anthropic did not name specific companies in its statement, its target is undoubtedly Chinese artificial intelligence companies represented by DeepSeek. After the "unexpected emergence" of DeepSeek R1 model from Chinese AI companies at the beginning of this year, domestic internet giants including Alibaba and ByteDance have joined this artificial intelligence "arms race," striving to develop AI services that can rival companies like OpenAI in the United States.

At that time, Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, "stubbornly" said that he does not consider DeepSeek from China as a competitor, but he repeatedly emphasized that the United States should strengthen export controls on artificial intelligence. In its latest statement, the company also claimed that it will continue to advocate for strengthening U.S. export controls to prevent U.S. rivals from developing advanced AI capabilities.

Analysts point out that DeepSeek has broken the technological monopoly and market dominance of the United States in the AI field. For a long time, U.S. AI models have dominated the global market, and enterprises and research institutions in other countries often rely on U.S. technology and products when using AI technology. The birth of DeepSeek has provided global users with a new choice. The recent decision by Anthropic to stop providing services to Chinese companies may indicate that the sense of crisis among U.S. AI companies regarding being overtaken is increasing.

After DeepSeek caused panic and anxiety in the U.S. industry, the U.S. Congress and multiple government departments have proposed or implemented related restrictive measures to curb its development. The U.S. Department of Defense, Congress, Navy, NASA, and Texas have successively banned the use of DeepSeek on official government devices. At that time, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jia Kun stated regarding the issue that China has always advocated that all parties should jointly promote the openness, inclusiveness, equity, and benevolence of artificial intelligence, and should not emphasize confrontation and competition, but pursue the sharing of intelligent dividends and achieve common development.

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