Sector

Chinese AI firms

Chinese AI firms are companies based in China that develop and deploy artificial intelligence technologies. They are the subject of US government probes and accusations of copying American AI models.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to US probes into their alleged copying of American AI models and their refusal to engage with a US delegation over sanctions fears.

Latest on Chinese AI firms

  • Anthropic claims Chinese AI firms secretly use Claude. Is it true?
  • Chinese AI firms fall on report of DeepSeek, Moonshot probe
  • Chinese AI firms shunned US delegation over sanctions fears, commission says
  • How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI Models
  • Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
  • China Dismisses Claims Chinese AI Firms "Copying" US Technology
  • US agencies claim Chinese companies covertly extracted billions of tokens from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and SpaceX's Grok to reduce development costs.
  • US accuses Chinese AI firms of 'malicious' copying of AI technology
  • Distillation is the process of training ​smaller AI models using output from larger, more expensive ones as part of an effort ​to lower the costs of training a new AI tool
  • The Chinese companies copied U.S. AI labs' intellectual property
  • US claims Chinese AI firms are carrying out ‘industrial-scale’ theft of trade secrets

Connections

16 entities linked to Chinese AI firms across the news graph.