🇭🇰 English, 9 October 2026, AI theft
US Alleges Chinese AI Firms Secretly Use US Models
Washington accuses Chinese AI developers of extracting capabilities from US frontier models to reduce costs
According to a joint advisory by the National Security Agency, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Chinese AI developers have been systematically extracting capabilities from US frontier models to reduce their own computing, electricity and research costs.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent similarly warned in July that Chinese firms were engaged in large-scale “distillation”.
Anthropic claimed Chinese AI developers used fraudulent accounts and proxy networks to siphon reasoning data from its flagship model, Claude.