NSA, CISA and FBI accuse six Chinese AI firms of model distillation
Three US agencies have named DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI as allegedly distilling American AI models at industrial scale since late 2024. The agencies also disputed DeepSeek's claim that its model was trained for about $5.6 million. They advised US providers to quietly reduce the quality of responses served to accounts flagged as suspicious.