AI BriefingAlibaba Reportedly Restricts Use of Claude Code
Key point
Alibaba has banned the use of Anthropic's programming tool Claude Code citing security risks and instructed employees to use its own tool instead.
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It has been reported that China's Alibaba will ban employees from using Claude Code starting July 10th. This measure is reportedly a decision to prevent security risks.
Anthropic already restricts model usage by Chinese companies and related overseas subsidiaries, and has continued measures to block access attempts by Chinese users seeking to bypass these restrictions. Recently on Reddit, allegations were raised that Claude Code includes a feature capable of identifying Chinese users.
Anthropic explained that this feature was an experiment conducted last March to prevent unauthorized resellers and to block Distillation (a method of using another model's outputs to train an AI model).
Alibaba has classified Claude Code as high-risk software and has instructed employees to use its own development tool, Qoder.
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