US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

Good news! 

I blogged here about a recent claim of a Chinese cloning attack or was it distillation.

"On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established. 

“We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models coming and threatening the large language models in the U.S.,” Bessent said on Fox Business Tuesday. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft. If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them because of this theft.” ..."

US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft | TechCrunch