{"id":842405,"date":"2026-09-10T01:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:58:29","slug":"six-chinese-ai-firms-accused-of-aggressively-copying-us-frontier-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842405\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Other firms, including Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, seemed focused on copying particular models from Anthropic and OpenAI, agencies said.<\/p>\n<p>Ars reached out to all AI firms whose models were allegedly targeted by Chinese firms, but no company immediately responded. So, it\u2019s hard to say if the recommended mitigations are practical.<\/p>\n<p>China says US claims are \u201cgroundless\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China is not happy that the US is continuing to accuse its top AI firms of IP theft, though.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, said that US agencies should be working on strengthening AI cooperation with China, \u201crather than making groundless accusations,\u201d NBC News reported. She further defended China\u2019s success in quickly expanding its AI capabilities as the \u201cresult of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Liu Chang, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy, had accused the Trump administration of operating a \u201csmear\u201d campaign rooted in prejudice against China, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/china-calls-us-ai-theft-claims-smear-sanctions-floated-rcna588813\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelevant individuals in the United States should respect the facts, discard prejudice, and stop smearing and discrediting China\u2019s achievements in the development of its artificial intelligence industry,\u201d Liu said.<\/p>\n<p>Around that time, the People\u2019s Daily, which is an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2026\/0728\/c90000-20482407.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that another Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson had noted that \u201cmany US AI companies have used Chinese models for distillation in the course of research, development, and training.\u201d Additionally, many US startups want access to Chinese AI models, which are more affordable and capable enough for many tasks.<\/p>\n<p>That spokesperson suggested that the US should listen to its business community or else \u201cChina will take all necessary measures in response to any action that causes material harm to its interests and will resolutely safeguard its legitimate and lawful rights and interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For China, beating back US attacks on its leading AI models comes at a time when its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology this week released a plan to \u201csharply expand the country\u2019s intelligent computing capacity over the next five years,\u201d the South China Morning Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3366733\/china-targets-fourfold-boost-ai-computing-capacity-2030-major-tech-push\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>. It also comes just ahead of a meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other firms, including Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, seemed focused on copying particular models from Anthropic and OpenAI,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-842405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}