China Probes DeepSeek, Moonshot AI Over Anthropic’s Claims They Route Requests to Claude
China’s leading artificial intelligence models are once again coming under fire for their alleged reliance on American competitors—but this time, the inquiry is coming from inside the house. According to a report from The Information, China’s leading internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is probing DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over accusations that the companies are routing user prompts and data to Anthropic’s Claude. DeepSeek and Moonshot landed themselves under the microscope of the regulator after their names were brought up repeatedly in a 154-page report titled “Detecting and countering misuse of AI” published by Anthropic earlier this month.
- ▪China’s leading artificial intelligence models are once again coming under fire for their alleged reliance on American competitors—but this time, the inquiry is coming from inside the house.
- ▪According to a report from The Information, China’s leading internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is probing DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over accusations that the companies are routing user prompts and data to Anthropic’s
- ▪DeepSeek and Moonshot landed themselves under the microscope of the regulator after their names were brought up repeatedly in a 154-page report titled “Detecting and countering misuse of AI” published by Anthropic earlier this month.
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China’s leading artificial intelligence models are once again coming under fire for their alleged reliance on American competitors—but this time, the inquiry is coming from inside the house. According to a report from The Information, China’s leading internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, is probing DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over accusations that the companies are routing user prompts and data to Anthropic’s Claude. The investigation has already reportedly resulted in several executives from leading Chinese AI labs getting called into the principal’s office and peppered with questions, but the Cyberspace Administration has reportedly narrowed its scrutiny to DeepSeek, the lab that produced the open-source DeepSeek AI model that briefly blew up the AI industry last…
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