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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 referred to as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of financial espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with a supposed plan to steal from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details related to AI innovation.

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

According to the superseding indictment, Google employed Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between roughly May 2022 and May 2023, Ding published 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, he secretly connected himself with 2 People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation business. 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 founded his own technology company focused 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 taking trade secrets from Google. Ding allegedly stole to the hardware facilities and software application platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI models. The trade tricks contain detailed details about the architecture and functionality 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 perform tasks, and the software application that manages thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and carrying out advanced AI workloads. The trade tricks likewise pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a kind of network interface card utilized to boost Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking items.

As declared, Ding distributed a PowerPoint discussion to employees of his technology company pointing out PRC nationwide policies encouraging the development of the domestic AI market. He also 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 transmit that understanding and research study to the PRC in exchange for wages, research funds, laboratory area, or other incentives. Ding's application for setiathome.berkeley.edu the talent program mentioned that his business's item "will assist China to have computing power infrastructure capabilities that are on par with the global level."

If founded guilty, Ding faces a maximum 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 figure out any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

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 developed to target illegal actors, secure supply chains, and prevent vital technology from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.

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