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US Government Accuses Chinese AI Firms of Distilling Frontier Models

US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX's Grok to reduce development costs.

CDF News DeskDark Reading10 Sept 2026, 1:17 am
CDF REPORT

US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX's Grok to reduce development costs.

What remains unknown

The available reporting does not establish which organizations or systems have been directly affected.

The available reporting does not establish whether the issue is being actively exploited in the wild.

The available reporting does not establish who is behind the activity, if an attacker is involved.

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