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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 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) proprietary details associated with AI technology.
Ding was initially arraigned in March 2024 on 4 counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains 7 categories of trade secrets stolen by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.
According to the superseding indictment, Google employed Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between around May 2022 and May 2023, Ding published more than 1,000 distinct files containing Google personal details from Google's network to his individual Google Cloud account, including the trade tricks alleged in the superseding indictment.
While Ding was employed by Google, he covertly affiliated himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based technology business. Around June 2022, Ding remained in conversations to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage innovation business based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had established his own technology business concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was serving 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 supposedly took technology relating to the hardware infrastructure and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI designs. 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 permits the chips to communicate and perform jobs, and the software application that orchestrates countless chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and executing cutting-edge AI work. The trade tricks likewise pertain to Google's custom-designed SmartNIC, a kind of network user interface card utilized to boost Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.
As declared, Ding circulated a PowerPoint presentation to staff members of his innovation business citing PRC nationwide policies encouraging the advancement of the domestic AI industry. He also created a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize people participated in research and development outside the PRC to transfer that knowledge and research study to the PRC in exchange for salaries, research study funds, lab space, or other rewards. Ding's application for the skill program specified that his company's product "will assist China to have computing power infrastructure abilities that are on par with the worldwide level."
If convicted, Ding faces an optimum charge of ten years in jail and as much as 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 thinking about the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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 developed to target illegal stars, protect supply chains, and avoid vital technology from being obtained by authoritarian routines and hostile nation-states.
A superseding indictment is simply a claims. All defendants are presumed innocent up until proven guilty beyond a sensible doubt in a court of law.