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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 7 counts of financial espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets in connection with a supposed strategy to take from Google LLC (Google) exclusive details connected to AI technology.
Ding was initially arraigned in March 2024 on four counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains 7 categories of trade secrets taken by Ding and charges Ding with seven counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.
According to the superseding indictment, Google hired Ding as a software application engineer in 2019. Between approximately 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, including the trade secrets alleged 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 discussions to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage technology business based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had founded his own technology company concentrated on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was functioning as the company's CEO.
The superseding indictment alleges that Ding meant to benefit the PRC government by taking trade tricks from Google. Ding allegedly stole technology associating with the hardware facilities and software platform that allows Google's supercomputing information center to train and serve large AI designs. The trade secrets 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 that permits the chips to communicate and carry out tasks, and the software application that orchestrates countless chips into a supercomputer capable of training and performing 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 performance, and cloud networking products.
As declared, Ding flowed a PowerPoint presentation to employees of his innovation company citing PRC national policies encouraging the advancement of the domestic AI industry. He also created a PowerPoint presentation containing an application to a PRC skill program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize people taken part in research and development outside the PRC to transmit that knowledge and research study to the PRC in exchange for wages, research study funds, laboratory area, or other rewards. Ding's application for the talent program mentioned that his business's product "will assist China to have calculating power infrastructure abilities that are on par with the worldwide level."
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