TikTok parent ByteDance has pulled the plug on US technology firm Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models on its Singapore-based coding app Trae after the American AI firm began restricting services to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world.
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Trae confirmed in a post published to its official Discord channel on Wednesday that it had discontinued access to the Claude model, citing an “interruption of the Claude series model”.
Trae said that its integration of other top models from companies including US-based OpenAI and Google as well as China’s DeepSeek and its continuous optimisation of the popular AI coding app would help it deliver “the same high-quality product performance as before” as it sought to reassure concerned users.
“We are full of confidence in the future,” Trae said in the post.
The move to remove Anthropic’s Claude models – widely seen as among the best AI models globally for coding assistance – comes after US AI start-up Anthropic made an abrupt move in early September to ramp up its restrictions on Chinese access to its Claude model series.
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The Amazon.com-backed company said it would tighten access to entities “more than 50 per cent owned … by companies headquartered in unsupported regions” such as China, regardless of where those entities were located.