US Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Systematic Theft of AI Models via Distillation

What happened

US security agencies have accused major Chinese AI companies, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI, of systematically copying proprietary American AI models using distillation techniques. This industrial-scale theft violates intellectual property rights and raises concerns about safeguarding AI innovations and national security.

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