Alibaba Bars Employees from Using Claude Code

The Chinese corporation Alibaba has reportedly barred its employees from using Claude Code — an AI-powered development tool from Anthropic. The news was reported by TechCrunch.

According to available information, Claude Code has been classified internally at Alibaba as high-risk software. That classification, it is claimed, is precisely what prompted the restriction on its use by the company's employees.

Details on the specific reasons behind the decision, as well as whether the ban applies to all of the corporation's divisions or only to certain teams, have not yet been disclosed.

Claude Code is a tool from Anthropic designed to automate programming tasks using large language models. Solutions of this kind have gained wide popularity among developers around the world thanks to their ability to speed up the writing and analysis of code.

Alibaba remains one of China's largest technology companies and is actively developing its own work in artificial intelligence, including the Qwen family of models. The restriction on using a third-party AI tool may stem from information security concerns as well as from the company's broader strategy of promoting its own solutions.

No official comment from either Alibaba or Anthropic has yet been made regarding the report.

Source: TechCrunch