The American giant of artificial intelligence (AI) Anthropic will expand the use restrictions on Chinese entities to include subsidiaries of Chinese organizations with headquarters abroad, for national security reasons.
The company, which has the support of Amazon, is known for its Chatbot Claude and its AI models, and is positioned as focused on responsible safety and development.
China companies, Russia, North Korea or Iran cannot access the commercial services of Anthropic “Due to legal, regulatory and security risks,” the company explained in a statement dated Friday.
However, some of these companies had access to Anthropic products through subsidiaries incorporated abroad, which allowed them to use them to “develop applications and services that, ultimately, serve to adversary military and intelligence services, as well as broader authoritarian objectives,” he said in the statement.
Anthropic, a company valued at 183,000 million dollars, said that the change in its policy, unpublished in the industry, It would affect entities whose owners, in any of the restricted countries, directly or indirectly possess more than 50% of the company.
The update of the Anthropic service terms will affect such subsidiaries “regardless of where they operate,” said the company.
Chatgpt and other OpenAi products, Anthropic competitor, are not available in China, are not available in China, which has promoted the growth of local models developed by companies such as Alibaba and Baidu.
Some users in China access models such as ChatgPT or Claude through VPN private connection services.
“This is the first time that a large US artificial intelligence company imposes a formal and public prohibition of this type,” said Nicholas Cook, an AI expert lawyer with 15 years of experience in China’s international legal law firm.
An Anthropic executive told the Financial Times that the measure It would have an impact of a few hundred millions of dollars on the company.
Anthropic, based in San Francisco, was founded in 2021 by OpenAi exejecutives.
This week he announced that he had raised $ 13,000 million in his last financing round and that he now has more than 300,000 corporate clients.