Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI (Kimi), and MiniMax — of creating over 24,000 fraudulent Claude accounts to extract training data from 16 million conversations, marking a major escalation in AI intellectual property disputes.
Anthropic has accused Chinese AI firms of creating over 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract 16 million training exchanges from Claude for model distillation.
DeepSeek released V4 on Lunar New Year with 1 trillion parameters, 1M-token context windows, and novel mHC architecture. The open-weight model claims benchmark-topping coding performance at 10–40× lower inference costs than Western frontier models.
DeepSeek is set to launch its next-generation coding-focused AI model V4 in mid-February, featuring 1M+ token context windows and consumer GPU support for unprecedented developer accessibility.