China slams US claims of ‘industrial-scale’ AI theft

The response comes after three US agencies accused Chinese AI companies of exploiting American AI models.Published On 9 Sep 20269 Sep 2026China has issued a forceful reply against claims by the United States that top Chinese artificial intelligence companies have engaged in “industrial scale” theft of their US counterparts’ AI models.The response on Wednesday comes after three US federal agencies – the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – accused Chinese AI companies of exploiting American AI models to benefit their own systems.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3OpenAI unveils latest AI model amid rising scrutiny and safety concernslist 2 of 3As the China-US AI race reaches Cairo, Egypt faces a strategic decisionlist 3 of 3AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race ‘could kill us all’end of listThe joint advisory on Tuesday said Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba and Moonshot AI had distilled “billions of tokens” from US models since “at least late 2024”, likely with the Chinese government’s “awareness”.Tokens are the smallest units of text that AI models read, or g...