U.S. agencies accuse six Chinese AI companies of industrial-scale distillation

The NSA, FBI, and CISA accuse six China-based AI companies of running industrial-scale knowledge-distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier AI models.

What the U.S. advisory says The joint advisory says organized campaigns have operated since at least late 2024 and targeted models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok.

The customer-privacy question Anthropic says some Moonshot AI/Kimi and DeepSeek requests were allegedly routed to Claude while users believed they were interacting with the Chinese companies’ models.

What the allegations establish—and what they do not The September 8 advisory establishes that the NSA, FBI, and CISA publicly accused six named China-based AI companies of industrial-scale distillation campaigns.

The allegations do not amount to a court ruling that the companies stole U.S. AI models.