# Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

https://mins.news/en/item/51957

- Ars Technica, 2026-09-09 20:06 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/six-chinese-ai-firms-accused-of-aggressively-copying-us-frontier-models/

> The NSA, CISA, and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of conducting industrial-scale distillation against US frontier models since at least late 2024. The agencies say the companies likely acted with Chinese government awareness while extracting capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, potentially cutting development time and costs.

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