US Threatens Sanctions on China if Unauthorized Use of American AI Models Is Found

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent revealed that the US government is preparing to investigate whether Chinese artificial intelligence models have used models developed by US companies for training or system development without authorization. He affirmed that intellectual property violations will not be tolerated and that the US has the authority to impose sanctions in response if such actions are found. Bessent noted that a technique called distillation, which involves developing smaller models by leveraging outputs from more powerful models, is under particular scrutiny. This comes after Anthropic submitted a letter to the US Senate committee accusing Alibaba of using this technique with its models, marking the largest case ever detected. Additionally, US agencies have found digital watermarks of large language models developed in the US appearing in several Chinese AI models and will accelerate further fact-finding in the coming days or weeks. This stance emerges amid intensifying AI competition, after Chinese startup Moonshot AI recently launched its Kimi K3 model, which outperformed OpenAI and Anthropic in certain tests.

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US threatens sanctions on China for unauthorized use of US AI models, potentially restricting OpenAI's IP and market access.

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Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model is mentioned in context of US scrutiny; potential sanctions could impact its operations.

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