US Accuses Alibaba and DeepSeek of Systematically Siphoning AI Models
US security agencies said they are investigating China’s leading AI firms for systematically extracting proprietary knowledge from American AI models. In a joint statement, the NSA, FBI and CISA warned Silicon Valley developers to protect their work, alleging the practice at industrial scale via model distillation used since at least 2024, including accusations against Alibaba and DeepSeek.