Security & privacy
China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies
NSA, CISA, and FBI issued a joint advisory alleging that China-based AI companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI — have since late 2024 run industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok), extracting billions of tokens via APIs, cloud proxies, and "transfer station" gray-market services to evade geographic and usage restrictions. The advisory recommends U.S. AI companies monitor for anomalous usage patterns, subscription-to-usage ratios, and enterprise-scale throughput to detect and mitigate this activity.