Controversial! The US's Strongest Model Opus 4.8 Is Accused of Being a Distilled Version of a Chinese Open-Source Large Model

The US large model company Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which performed well in multiple rankings, but was exposed to have cognitive confusion issues. Internet users found through API testing that when asking about its identity, the model incorrectly claimed to be Alibaba's Qwen or DeepSeek, among other Chinese open-source large models, drawing attention.