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Anthropic, an American AI company, has restricted access to its AI models for Chinese companies like Alibaba, Ant Financial, and ByteDance, which had been bypassing U.S. export controls. The move follows allegations of unauthorized use of their AI tools by these firms.

Consensus

Anthropic has restricted access to its advanced AI models for Chinese companies.
Alibaba Group, Ant Financial, and ByteDance were found to have accessed Anthropic's AI tools in violation of usage terms.
The U.S. government imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.

Points of divergence

Anthropic allowed access to Claude through internal networks connected to its Singapore office, which was used by Ant Financial employees. — vedomosti
ByteDance allows engineers to include personal subscriptions for Claude in corporate expenses via VPN. — vedomosti

Coverage (2 sources)

FT: Anthropic has cut off access to AI models for Alibaba and other Chinese companies — Ведомости
FT: Anthropic blocks access to its AI models for Chinese companies — Коммерсантъ

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