U.S. Government Criticizes Chinese AI Companies for "Unauthorized Copying" Ahead of Summit

[Financial News] The U.S. government launched a fierce attack, claiming that "Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies are maliciously copying the AI technology of U.S. companies." On the 8th (local time), British media predicted that "relations between the two countries could become complicated ahead of the U.S.-China summit at the end of this month."
According to U.S. investigative and intelligence authorities, Chinese companies have infringed upon the intellectual property rights of U.S. AI firms through a technique called "distillation." This refers to a machine learning process in which smaller AI models are trained using the output of large, costly U.S. AI models. It is known to significantly reduce costs when developing new AI tools.
In this regard, the U.S. government identified six Chinese companies, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba Group. The U.S. government determined that these companies used U.S. AI models without authorization to accelerate the learning speed of their own AI, and that the Chinese government likely condoned this.
U.S. government officials cited Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and SpaceX as U.S. AI companies targeted by Chinese companies.
The announcement by a Chinese AI company regarding technology replication came as the U.S. government prepared for Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit ahead of the U.S.-China summit later this month. British media noted that "this also comes ahead of talks between the two countries in the middle of this month to discuss AI cybersecurity risks."
U.S. authorities criticized the actions, stating that "such behavior not only reduces research and development costs for Chinese companies but also strengthens China's military and cyber attack capabilities against the U.S. and its allies," but the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. did not issue an immediate statement on the matter.
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