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Superseding Indictment Charges Chinese National in Relation to Alleged Plan to Steal Proprietary AI Technology


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A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Linwei Ding, also understood as Leon Ding, 38, disgaeawiki.info with 7 counts of economic espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with a supposed plan to take from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details related to AI innovation.


Ding was at first arraigned in March 2024 on 4 counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains seven classifications of trade tricks taken by Ding and charges Ding with seven counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade secrets.


According to the superseding indictment, Google worked with Ding as a software engineer in 2019. Between roughly May 2022 and May 2023, Ding published more than 1,000 unique files containing Google confidential details from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, including the trade tricks declared in the superseding indictment.


While Ding was used by Google, he covertly connected himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based technology companies. Around June 2022, Ding remained in discussions to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage technology company based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had founded his own innovation business focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was functioning as the business's CEO.


The superseding indictment alleges that Ding planned to benefit the PRC government by stealing trade tricks from Google. Ding apparently stole technology associating with the hardware infrastructure and software platform that enables Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve big AI models. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and performance of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and mediawiki.hcah.in systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software application that permits the chips to communicate and carry out jobs, links.gtanet.com.br and the software application that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and carrying out innovative AI workloads. The trade secrets also pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a kind of network interface card used to boost Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking items.


As declared, Ding distributed a PowerPoint presentation to staff members of his technology business mentioning PRC nationwide policies encouraging the development of the domestic AI industry. He likewise developed a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC skill program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize individuals taken part in research study and advancement outside the PRC to transfer that knowledge and research to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research study funds, lab area, or other rewards. Ding's application for the talent program mentioned that his company's item "will help China to have computing power facilities capabilities that are on par with the international level."


If convicted, Ding faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and kenpoguy.com as much as a $250,000 fine for each trade-secret count and 15 years in jail and grandtribunal.org $5,000,000 fine for each economic-espionage count. A federal district court judge will figure out any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory aspects.


The FBI is investigating the case.


Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey Boome and Molly K. Priedeman for the Northern District of California and Trial Attorneys Stephen Marzen and Yifei Zheng of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.


Today's action was coordinated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency police strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce created to target illicit actors, protect supply chains, and avoid important innovation from being obtained by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation-states.


A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All offenders are presumed innocent till tested guilty beyond a sensible doubt in a court of law.