A notable recent example comes from Anthropic, who accused DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of distilling from Claude's outputs.
【未经验证的断言】Anthropic 的「指控」被直接作为事实引用，但这不过是一家公司的单方声明，且有明显的商业动机（限制竞争对手使用其 API）。文章没有提供任何独立核实，也没有讨论这些指控的证据质量。将商业诉讼语境下的「accusation」等同于已确认的事实，是新闻引用规范上的明显问题。
Anthropic, who accused DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of distilling from Claude's outputs.
Anthropic 公开指控 DeepSeek、月之暗面和 MiniMax 从 Claude 的输出中蒸馏数据——这是一个令人震惊的商业伦理事件。更深层的含义是：这些中国公司被迫采用「寄生式追赶」策略，以 Claude 为「免费教师」压缩训练成本。这既是技术现实的写照，也暗示了「无算力优势」下的竞争逻辑：当你无法花钱训练更好的模型，就借用别人训练好的。
From anthropic.com
令人惊讶的是，这项研究由Anthropic Fellows团队完成，表明该公司正在积极投资前沿AI研究。这种对模型比较技术的重视反映了Anthropic对AI安全和透明度的承诺，同时也暗示了AI行业正在从单纯追求模型性能转向更精细的行为特征分析。
However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do. Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now:
AI is now writing much of the code at Anthropic
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Then in November Anthropic published Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents—describing a way to have coding agents generate code to call MCPs in a way that avoided much of the context overhead from the original specification.
still anthropic made MCP more approachable at the end of year with Code execution with MCP. Meaning?
Anthropic themselves appeared to acknowledge this later in the year with their release of the brilliant Skills mechanism—see my October post Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP. MCP involves web servers and complex JSON payloads. A Skill is a Markdown file in a folder, optionally accompanied by some executable scripts.
suggestion that Anthropic's own Skills (a markdown file w perhaps some scripts) maybe bigger than their MCP
Anthropic is acquiring Bun
Bun is a js runtime, Anthropic bought it to roll into Claude code
In November, Claude Code achieved a significant milestone: just six months after becoming available to the public, it reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue
Anthropic reached $1bn revenue with ClaudeCode within 6 months.
Dario Amade was the C CEO of Anthropic a big AI company. He worked on safety at OpenAI and he left to start Anthropic because he said, "We're not doing this safely enough. I have to start another company that's all about safety
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Current intellectual property laws constitute an “anti-constitutional” barrier to the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI), systematically frustrating the explicit purpose of the Intellectual Property (IP) Clause.
This article reports that Anthropic has agreed to pay out a $1.5 billion settlement for copyright violations while training their Claude AI tool on books found on the Internet. That works out to be about $3000 per book.
The whole idea of books (at least nonfiction books) is that readers are supposed to learn from them. But now if actual learning from them takes place it's a $3000 charge!
It used to be that to violate a copyright required copying, not merely training. What's more, in the USA the sole justification for government-enforced monopolies on intellectual property is Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which authorizes copyrights and patents only to "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts," and only "for limited Times," and only "to Authors and Inventors." By extending copyright duration to the "author's life plus 70 years," Congress flouted those restrictions, and this precedent further tramples them, by clearly impeding the progress of science and useful arts.
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The researchers called the behavior “rare” and “difficult to elicit.
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anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail
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https://web.archive.org/web/20241202062707/https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol
Github repositories for MCP by Anthropic. MIT Licences at first glance.
Anthropic proposes 'Model Context Protocol' MCP on how to connect local/external info sources to LLMs and agents, as a standard. To make ai tools more context aware. Article says MCP is open source. Idea is to attach a MCP server to every source and have that interact over MCP with the MCP client attached to a model and/or tools.
Anthropic is the org of Claude model.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241112122725/https://lexfridman.com/dario-amodei-transcript
Transcript of 5+ hrs (!) of Dario Amodei (CEO Anthropic) talking about AI, AGI and more. Lots to go through it seems. Vgl [[My Last Five Years of Work]] by Amodei's 'chief of staff' whatever that means wrt a CEO other than sounding grandiose.
Please note that the transcript is human generated, and may have errors.
Ha, rather than "Please note that the transcript is machine generated and is certain to contain errors".
I'm tempted to run this transcript through Claude for summaries and structure. See how that works.