Alibaba has banned employee use of Anthropic's Claude tools starting July 10 and placed Claude Code on a high-risk list after Anthropic accused it of the largest known distillation attack. The move highlights escalating restrictions on U.S. AI models in China amid terms-of-service bans and reported access loopholes.
Employees must remove all Anthropic models and agent products and switch to the company's own AI assistant, Qoder.
The U.S. firm's terms of service ban Chinese companies and other "adversarial nations" from using its models.
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