US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted
Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests were disguised.
The National Security Agency, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published the advisory on Tuesday under the title “China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies”.
It names DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI. Distillation is the practice of training a cheaper model on the outputs of a more capable one, and the advisory argues it forms “the core, not merely a supplement” of how these companies build.
The sharpest line concerns the number that made DeepSeek a global story. Its widely cited $5.6mn training cost, the advisory says, excludes the cost of data acquired through malicious distillation.
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