Feds accuse China of ‘systematic’ distillation of U.S. AI models
NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly accuse Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models.
A joint advisory from the NSA, CISA, and FBI alleges China-based AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI have systematically extracted capabilities from US frontier models since at least late 2024. The companies allegedly spent billions of tokens across millions of requests against Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok, routing traffic through multiple accounts, platforms, proxies, and third-party aggregators to evade detection. Moonshot AI allegedly distilled 18 US models, including Anthropic's most advanced model, to train its Kimi-K2 and Kimi K3 models.
- Advisory names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI
- Distillation described as the core of China's AI industrial policy
- Evasion tactics include account spreading, proxies, and third-party aggregators
- DeepSeek allegedly distilled four Claude versions, five ChatGPT versions, Gemini, and Grok 4
- Agencies call for coordinated information-sharing across government, industry, and allies
- Vendors
- Alibaba
- Countries
- United StatesChina
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