NSA, CISA and FBI Name Six Chinese AI Firms in a Joint Advisory on Industrial-Scale Distillation
CISA·high signal
A joint cybersecurity advisory (AA26-251A) accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI of extracting billions of tokens across millions of requests from Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since 2024, and lists which US model each firm targeted. The advisory explicitly separates legitimate distillation research from what it calls malicious, targeted extraction of restricted proprietary capabilities. It also challenges DeepSeek's reported $5.6M training cost on the grounds that the figure excludes the true cost of the distilled data.