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A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Linwei Ding, likewise understood as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of economic espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with a supposed strategy to steal from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details associated with AI innovation.

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

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

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

The superseding indictment declares that Ding planned to benefit the PRC government by stealing trade tricks from Google. Ding presumably took technology relating to the hardware facilities and software platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models. The trade secrets 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 that allows the chips to interact and carry out tasks, and the software that manages countless chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and executing cutting-edge AI workloads. The trade secrets also pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a kind of network user interface card utilized to boost Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking products.

As alleged, Ding circulated a PowerPoint discussion to employees of his innovation company mentioning PRC nationwide policies encouraging the advancement of the domestic AI market. He likewise created a PowerPoint presentation containing an application to a PRC skill program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize people engaged in research study and development outside the PRC to send that understanding and research study to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research study funds, laboratory space, or other incentives. Ding's application for the skill program mentioned that his business's product "will assist China to have computing power infrastructure capabilities that are on par with the international level."

If founded guilty, Ding deals with a maximum charge 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 identify 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 collaborated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency law enforcement strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce developed to target illicit stars, safeguard supply chains, and prevent important from being obtained by authoritarian regimes and hostile nation-states.

A superseding indictment is simply a claims. All offenders are presumed innocent up until proven guilty beyond an affordable doubt in a court of law.