Alibaba Bans Employee Use of Anthropic's Claude Code AI Tool
L'essentiel
- Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's AI programming tool Claude Code starting July 10, classifying it as high-risk.
- This follows Anthropic's own restrictions on Chinese companies and efforts to close access loopholes, including an experimental feature to identify Chinese users.
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Alibaba is banning employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool, citing high risk. Anthropic itself restricts Chinese companies from using its models.
China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports.
Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The company has reportedly been working to close loopholes that allow Chinese users to access Claude.
According to a recent Reddit post, some of that loophole-closing involved a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users. Anthropic’s Thariq Shihipar said in a post on X that this was “an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation.” (Distillation is a practice where AI models are trained on the outputs of other models.)
“The team has landed stronger mitigations since then and we’ve actually been meaning to take this down for a while,” Shihipar said.
Nonetheless, Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software and is instructing employees to use the company’s own Qoder tool instead.
Questions ouvertes
- Will other Chinese companies follow Alibaba's lead?
- What are the specific risks Alibaba perceives in Claude Code?
