A White House adviser accused China's Moonshot AI of "large scale" theft of US AI capabilities through "distillation" and accessing restricted Nvidia servers. The allegations intensify US scrutiny of Chinese AI firms amid broader IP theft concerns and upcoming US-China leadership talks.
The White House’s office of technology policy said that foreign entities are using proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques to distill capabilities from American AI models.
A memo from Michael Kratsios says firms, mainly in China, are wrongfully distilling US AI models.
The Trump administration accused Chinese entities of running industrial-scale campaigns to steal U.S. artificial intelligence technology through 'distillation' operations that copy larger AI models to train smaller ones. Top science advisor Michael Kratsios said the campaigns use tens of thousands of proxy accounts and jailbreaking techniques to extract proprietary information from American AI systems. The administration plans to share intelligence with U.S. AI companies and explore accountability measures against the foreign actors.
