The NSA, CISA and FBI issued a joint advisory alleging that Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since 2024. The agencies say this data was used to train competing systems like DeepSeek's R1 and Moonshot's Kimi K2/K3, describing the practice as 'distillation activities at an industrial scale.'
engadget.com
· 2026-09-09
The NSA, CISA, and FBI issued a joint advisory alleging that Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, have run large-scale campaigns since 2024 to extract capabilities from leading US models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. The agencies say these firms used millions of queries routed through multiple accounts, APIs, proxies, and cloud providers to generate synthetic training data and build competing models such as DeepSeek's R1/R3 and Moonshot's Kimi-K2/K3.
slashdot.org
· 2026-09-08
Yang Zhilin, a 33-year-old researcher, chose to return to China rather than pursue a U.S. career, founding Moonshot AI. The startup's open-weight model has drawn significant attention and is reportedly unsettling established players in the global AI industry.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-04
Moonshot AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has confidentially submitted an IPO application to the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to people familiar with the matter. Details on the size of the offering or timing were not disclosed.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-03
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