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title: "US Accuses 6 Chinese AI Firms of Stealing US Models via Distillation Since 2024"
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summary: "Federal agents from the NSA, FBI, and CISA have identified a systematic effort by Beijing-linked companies to copy the internal logic and capabilities of American artificial intelligence. These industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns involve millions of requests and billions of tokens to extract proprietary functionalities from models including Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok since late 2024. The joint advisory names six Chinese firms, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI, as actors using these methods as the core of their AI development strategy. By mid-2026, Z AI had distilled data from GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 to create chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities, a process US officials warn could bolster China's military and cyber power weeks before a scheduled meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping."
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# US Accuses 6 Chinese AI Firms of Stealing US Models via Distillation Since 2024

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**Published:** 2026-09-09T02:55:56.000Z
**Category:** Regulation
**Topics:** alibaba, deepseek, openai, google, anthropic, regulation, distillation, us\-government

## Summary

Federal agents from the NSA, FBI, and CISA have identified a systematic effort by Beijing\-linked companies to copy the internal logic and capabilities of American artificial intelligence\. These industrial\-scale knowledge distillation campaigns involve millions of requests and billions of tokens to extract proprietary functionalities from models including Google Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and xAI's Grok since late 2024\. The joint advisory names six Chinese firms, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI, as actors using these methods as the core of their AI development strategy\. By mid\-2026, Z AI had distilled data from GPT\-5\.5 and Claude Opus 4\.8 to create chain\-of\-thought reasoning capabilities, a process US officials warn could bolster China's military and cyber power weeks before a scheduled meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://huggingnews.com/ai/us-accuses-6-chinese-ai-firms-of-stealing-us-models-via-distillation-sin-0723e5a3>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/CISAgov/status/2097398123240862010>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/CyberScoopNews/status/2097459155501998118>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/kyleichan/status/2097458864249594118>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/Cointelegraph/status/2097490274876305459>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/NSACyber/status/2097374444062732374>)
- [Story source](<https://x.com/DeItaone/status/2097622903139250201>)
- [Supporting source](<https://x.com/financialjuice/status/2097681272873054471>)