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    Note: View the superseding indictment here.

    A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Linwei Ding, also called Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with a supposed strategy to steal from Google LLC (Google) proprietary details associated with AI technology.

    Ding was initially arraigned in March 2024 on 4 counts of theft of trade tricks. The superseding indictment returned today explains seven classifications of trade tricks stolen by Ding and charges Ding with 7 counts of financial espionage and 7 counts of theft of trade tricks.

    According to the superseding indictment, Google worked with Ding as a software engineer in 2019. Between around May 2022 and May 2023, Ding uploaded more than 1,000 unique files containing Google confidential details from Google's network to his personal Google Cloud account, consisting of the trade secrets declared in the superseding indictment.

    While Ding was utilized by Google, he covertly associated himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based technology business. Around June 2022, Ding remained in conversations to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage technology business based in the PRC. By May 2023, trademarketclassifieds.com Ding had established his own focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was acting as the company's CEO.

    The superseding indictment declares that Ding planned to benefit the PRC federal government by stealing trade tricks from Google. Ding supposedly took technology relating to the hardware facilities and software platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve big AI designs. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and performance of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and wiki.insidertoday.org systems and demo.qkseo.in Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software application that permits the chips to communicate and execute tasks, and the software that orchestrates thousands of chips into a supercomputer efficient in training and carrying out cutting-edge AI workloads. The trade tricks likewise pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a kind of network user interface card utilized to boost Google's GPU, high efficiency, and cloud networking items.

    As alleged, Ding circulated a PowerPoint presentation to workers of his technology business pointing out PRC national policies motivating the development of the domestic AI market. He also produced a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC talent program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored talent programs incentivize people engaged in research study and advancement outside the PRC to transfer that knowledge and research to the PRC in exchange for wages, research study funds, laboratory space, or other incentives. Ding's application for the talent program stated that his business's product "will help China to have computing power infrastructure capabilities that are on par with the worldwide level."

    If convicted, Ding faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and as much as a $250,000 fine for each trade-secret count and 15 years in jail and $5,000,000 fine for each economic-espionage count. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory aspects.

    The FBI is examining the case.

    Assistant U.S. Attorneys Casey Boome and Molly K. Priedeman for the Northern District of California and Trial Attorneys Stephen Marzen and Yifei Zheng of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.

    Today's action was collaborated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency law enforcement strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illicit stars, safeguard supply chains, and avoid important innovation from being obtained by authoritarian routines and hostile nation-states.

    A superseding indictment is merely a claims. All defendants are presumed innocent up until tested guilty beyond an affordable doubt in a court of law.