U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok

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Published: 2026-09-09
Category: technology
Source: The Hacker News

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CISA, and FBI, have accused China-based AI companies of industrial-scale 'systematic extraction' of proprietary functionalities and capabilities from American frontier models like Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, and SpaceXAI Grok. This activity, described as a core part of China's AI development strategy, involves extracting billions of tokens and exploiting compromised credentials to obscure origin.

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