U.S. Accuses Six Chinese AI Firms of Copying Frontier Models

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U.S. agencies say DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI have been conducting industrial-scale distillation attacks against frontier AI models from U.S. companies since at least late 2024. The agencies allege the firms likely operated with Chinese government awareness, citing use of capabilities extracted from models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok.