"Silicon Valley is at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation, pioneering transformative work that drives economic growth and strengthens our national security,"
"We will vigorously protect American intellectual capital from foreign interests that seek to gain an unfair competitive advantage while putting our national security at risk."
"Ding was indicted in March 2024 for transferring sensitive proprietary information from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account. The stolen documents included details about the company's supercomputing data center infrastructure used for running AI models, the Cluster Management System (CMS) software for managing the data centers, and the AI models and applications they supported. Specifically, the trade secrets pertained to - Architecture and functionality of Google's custom Tensor Processing Unit chips and systems, and Google's Graphics Processing Unit systems"
" Software that allows the chips to communicate and execute tasks Software that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer capable of training and executing cutting-edge AI workloads Custom-designed SmartNIC, a type of network interface card used to facilitate high-speed communication within Google's AI supercomputers and cloud networking products"
A federal jury convicted Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for taking over 2,000 proprietary Google documents tied to artificial intelligence technology for the benefit of the People's Republic of China. The stolen materials included details on supercomputing data center infrastructure, Cluster Management System (CMS) software, AI models and applications, custom Tensor Processing Unit and Graphics Processing Unit architectures, chip communication and orchestration software for large-scale chip clusters, and custom SmartNIC networking designs. Ding joined Google in 2019 and is accused of transferring the proprietary information to his personal Google Cloud account between May 2022 and April 2023.
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