US prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled an extended 14-ninth prosecution, in which former Google Software Engineer Linvei Ding accused Artificial Intelligence (AI) trade secrets to steal two Chinese companies for stealing two Chinese companies, for which the secret look Was working from
A 38 -year -old Chinese citizen, Ding, was accused by a federal grand jury in San Francisco, which had seven economic espionage and seven counts in the theft of trade secrets.
Each economic espionage fee consists of a maximum period of 15 years and fine of $ 5 million (about Rs 43 crore), while each trade secret charge consists of a maximum tenure of 10 years and a fine of $ 250,000 (about Rs 2.18 crore). .
The defendant, also known as Leon Ding, was included in four cases of theft of trade secrets in the last March. He is free on bonds. Ding’s lawyers did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.
The case of Ding was coordinated in 2023 through an inter -conversion technology strike force created by the Biden administration.
This initiative was designed to help prevent advanced technology from being acquired by countries such as China and Russia, or potentially threatened national security.
Prosecutors said that Ding stole information about hardware infrastructure and software platforms that allow Google’s supercompute data centers to train large AI models.
Some of the allegedly stolen chip blueprints were to give Google to cloud computing rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft, who designs their own, and reduce Google’s dependence on chips from NVIDIA.
The prosecutors said that Ding joined Google in May 2019 and started his theft after three years when he was designed to join an early stage Chinese technology company.
Ding allegedly uploaded more than 1,000 confidential files by May 2023 and later presented a powerpoint to a China startup employees, which he established, he said that the policies of the country encouraged the development of a domestic AI industry. Did.
Google was not accused and has said that he has collaborated with law enforcement.
Describing the December 18 hearing, according to the court records, prosecutors and defense lawyers discussed “potential resolution” in the case of Ding, “but guess the case to proceed to the test.”
Case US V. Ding, US District Court, Northern District of California, number 24 -CR -00141.
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