---
title: "US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-says-chinese-firms-extracted-billions-of-tokens-from-frontier-ai-67b6a4db
published: 2026-09-09T16:48:33.000Z
byline: "Source: BleepingComputer"
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# US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models

Source: BleepingComputer · Published 2026-09-09 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/us-says-chinese-firms-extracted-billions-of-tokens-from-frontier-ai-67b6a4db

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024. \[...\]

In this story: [Distillation attacks](https://frontiernewswire.com/topics/distillation-attacks)

## Sources

- [Read the original at BleepingComputer](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-says-chinese-firms-extracted-billions-of-tokens-from-frontier-ai-models)

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