[Digital Today reporter Chi-gyu Hwang (황치규)] Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s coding tool Claude Code starting on July 10.
TechCrunch reported that Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software and instructed employees to use its own tool, Qoder, instead.
Anthropic already bans Chinese companies and their overseas entities from using its models.
It has also continued efforts to block workarounds that allow users in China to access Claude.
A recent Reddit post said those efforts included a version of Claude Code that covertly identifies users in China. Tarik Shihipar (타릭 시히파르), an Anthropic official, said on social media platform X (Twitter) that the feature was "an experiment that started in March, aimed at preventing abuse of unauthorized reseller accounts and preventing distillation." Distillation is a method of training an AI model on another model’s outputs.
Shihipar added: "The team later put stronger safeguards in place, and in fact we had been trying to remove this feature for some time."
Chi-gyu Hwang
delight@d-today.co.kr