Claude Opus 4.8 distilled Alibaba Qwen models

Tried it. It says Opus 4.8.

The replies to that Twitter thread are getting the same result.

Until there's some replication, I assume this person is either trolling, or they're paying for a scam proxy service claiming to sell Opus 4.8 API access but routing the requests to Qwen.

Just a reminder that it's bad when China does it. But the other way around, well that's just business baby

How the turntables. In February Anthropic published a blog post [1] accusing DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of distilling their models, with a scary foreword about national security and then revealing the extracted data was about general reasoning, agentic coding and tool use.

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...