--- title: US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP... description: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft from American AI models is established, as Chinese... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/us-threatens-sanctions-against-chinese-ai-models-over-ip-theft-0ywz1idf6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft | daily.dev og:description: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft from American AI models is established, as Chinese... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/us-threatens-sanctions-against-chinese-ai-models-over-ip-theft-0ywz1idf6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0yWZ1IDF6.png og:image:alt: US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft from American AI models is established, as Chinese open-source models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 gain capabilities and threaten US AI firms' business models. The move would escalate existing chip export restrictions to targeting AI models directly. The threat centers on model distillation — a technique to compress large model capabilities into smaller systems — though industry figures like Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argue distillation is widely practiced and a minor factor in China's AI progress, attributing it more to strong Chinese research teams. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The US just told China to stop copying its AI. 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