US names six Chinese AI firms in industrial-scale model distillation
Ars Technica AI · rss · 2026-09-10
In a joint advisory, the NSA, CISA and FBI named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI, alleging industrial-scale distillation attacks against US frontier models (variants of Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok) since at least late 2024, likely with Chinese government awareness.
Agencies said such distillation gives China-based firms significantly shorter development timelines and billions in savings on training frontier models.
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