Anthropic accused the Chinese tech giant Alibaba of “brazenly” and “illicitly” trying to extract its artificial intelligence capabilities – carrying out “the largest known distillation attack on Anthropic to date.” Anthropic detailed the alleged violation of its terms in a letter it sent to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs earlier this month, Bloomberg reported. The act Anthropic imputed to Alibaba — distillation — is an AI training method in which a small, less capable model is built using outputs from an existing, more sophisticated model. Dario Amodei’s Anthropic wrote a letter to Congress alleging Alibaba is…