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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, likewise called Leon Ding, 38, with seven counts of economic espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with a supposed plan to take from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details related to AI technology.

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

According to the superseding indictment, Google hired Ding as a software engineer in 2019. Between roughly May 2022 and May 2023, Ding submitted more than 1,000 special files containing Google private details from Google's network to his individual Google Cloud account, consisting of the trade secrets alleged in the superseding indictment.

While Ding was employed by Google, he covertly affiliated himself with 2 People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation 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 established his own innovation company concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was functioning as the company's CEO.

The superseding indictment declares that Ding intended to benefit the PRC federal government by stealing trade secrets from Google. Ding apparently took innovation relating to the hardware infrastructure and software application platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and asteroidsathome.net serve large AI models. The trade tricks contain detailed details about the architecture and performance of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software application that allows the chips to interact and execute tasks, and the software application that manages thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and performing innovative AI workloads. The trade tricks likewise pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a type of network interface card utilized to enhance Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.

As alleged, Ding circulated a PowerPoint discussion to staff members of his technology company citing PRC nationwide policies encouraging the development of the domestic AI industry. He likewise produced a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize individuals engaged in research study and development outside the PRC to send that knowledge and research study to the PRC in exchange for wages, research study funds, lab space, or other incentives. Ding's application for pipewiki.org the skill program mentioned that his business's product "will assist China to have calculating power infrastructure capabilities that are on par with the global level."

If founded guilty, Ding deals with an optimum penalty of ten years in jail and approximately a $250,000 fine for each trade-secret count and 15 years in jail and $5,000,000 fine for each economic-espionage count. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory aspects.

The FBI is examining 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 designed to target illicit actors, protect supply chains, and prevent vital technology from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.

A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All defendants are presumed innocent till proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a law court.