US Agencies Accuse 6 Chinese AI Firms of Copying American Models Since 2024
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Updated · NBC News · Sep 9
US Agencies Accuse 6 Chinese AI Firms of Copying American Models Since 2024
3 articles · Updated · NBC News · Sep 9
Summary
An FBI-NSA-CISA alert said six leading Chinese AI developers have systematically distilled U.S. models since 2024, naming DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI.
The report said the firms mined systems including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok to build their own models, calling distillation the critical core of their development rather than a supplement.
U.S. agencies said the campaign likely had Chinese government awareness, though they did not allege direct intelligence-service involvement, and urged American companies to tighten user verification and blunt suspicious queries.
Beijing rejected the allegations as groundless, while the warning lands before a Sept. 24 Trump-Xi meeting and after months of U.S. claims that Chinese AI groups are freeloading off American innovation.