Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba has reportedly banned its employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, effective July 10, citing it as high-risk software. This aligns with Anthropic's efforts to restrict access for Chinese companies and close loopholes that allowed unauthorized usage.
Alibaba has reportedly prohibited its employees from utilizing Anthropic's generative AI programming tool, Claude Code, with the ban taking effect on July 10. The Chinese tech giant has classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
This development comes amidst Anthropic's ongoing efforts to prevent Chinese companies and their foreign-owned subsidiaries from accessing its models. The company has been actively working to close loopholes that previously allowed Chinese users to bypass restrictions.
A former experiment by Anthropic to identify Chinese users accessing Claude Code through loopholes was intended to combat account abuse and prevent model distillation. However, the company has since implemented more robust mitigation strategies. Consequently, Alibaba is now directing its employees to use its proprietary tool, Qoder, as an alternative.
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