Alibaba is reportedly blocking employees from using Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, Claude Code, beginning July 10.
The move comes as the company tightens its internal software policies while Anthropic continues restricting access to its AI services in China.
Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies and overseas organizations controlled by Chinese firms from using its AI models. In recent months, the company has also been working to close loopholes that allowed some users in China to continue accessing Claude.
Attention recently turned to those efforts after a Reddit post claimed that a version of Claude Code could quietly identify users connecting from China. Responding to the reports, Anthropic’s Thariq Shihipar said on X that the feature was part of an experiment introduced in March to combat account abuse by unauthorized resellers and reduce the risk of AI model distillation, a process in which one AI system is trained using the outputs of another.
Shihipar added that Anthropic has since implemented stronger safeguards and had already planned to remove the experimental detection method.
Meanwhile, multiple reports say Alibaba has classified Claude Code as high-risk software for internal use. Employees have reportedly been instructed to switch to Qoder, Alibaba’s own AI-powered programming assistant, instead.
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Alibaba Reportedly Bans Employees From Using Claude Code
