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Anthropic Goes Public: DeepSeek, Kimi, and MiniMax Used 24,000 Fake Accounts to Steal Claude's Capabilities — 16 Million Conversations of Industrial-Scale IP Theft
Anthropic publicly accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot/Kimi, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts for 16M+ conversations to distill Claude's coding and agentic reasoning. MiniMax was caught mid-operation pivoting to Claude's latest model within 24 hours.
AI Inference Costs Drop 5-10x Every Year — Epoch AI Has the Receipts to Prove It
Epoch AI researcher Jean-Stanislas Denain challenges Toby Ord's pessimism with data: AI capability cost drops 5-10x annually. A $1M task today could be $100K next year, $10K after. Inference cost is real but temporary.