China Hits Back at U.S. Claims of ‘Malicious’ AI Distillation Ahead of Planned Trump-Xi Talks
The advisory says Chinese firms extracted capabilities from U.S. frontier models since late 2024, while Beijing called the allegations groundless.
- On Tuesday, the FBI, National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint advisory alleging Chinese AI developers "distilled" capabilities from U.S. models like Claude and GPT since late 2024.
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a Dallas business event that China can "never get ahead" of the U.S. in AI, while the advisory claimed Chinese firms "route distillation requests through multiple pathways" to bypass terms of use.
- Agencies identified DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, and Z.ai as involved, accusing them of achieving cost savings "through bulk procurement of the U.S. AI companies" premium subscriptions shared across teams of developers.
- China hit back Wednesday, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning dismissing U.S. claims as "unfounded accusations" and stating that China's development stems from "high-level technological self-reliance and strength."
- This exchange precedes planned talks later this month between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, where AI governance is expected to be a key agenda item.
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U.S. Accuses China of AI Espionage Amidst Diplomatic Tensions
The U.S. has accused several Chinese AI companies of maliciously copying technology from American AI firms through a technique called distillation. This accusation precedes a planned meeting between the two nations' leaders. China calls the method neutral and accuses the U.S. of using double standards.
<p>China rejected U.S. accusations of malicious AI development ahead of Trump's meeting and Xi The U.S. accused Chinese companies of industrially copying advanced AI models. Beijing called the claims unfounded.</p>
China hits back at US claims of ‘malicious’ AI distillation ahead of planned Trump-Xi talks – WTOP News
BANGKOK (AP) — China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said Chinese AI developers had extracted, or “distilled,” capabilities from some…
China Says US Accusations of AI Theft Are 'Groundless'
US cyber defense agency released an advisory accusing top Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of systematically stealing the capabilities \"through industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns\"
On Wednesday, China claimed that the US accusations against large Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies, suspected of having hijacked American models on a large scale, were "unsubstantiated". ...
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