Chinese software engineer charged with stealing Google’s AI trade secrets
A former Google engineer has been accused of stealing trade secrets from the tech giant’s artificial intelligence division and attempting to sell them to China. He allegedly copied files relating to Google’s cutting-edge AI chips, including software that could be used as the “brain” of advanced supercomputers, according to US court papers. Mr Ding, a Chinese citizen, started working in Google’s San Francisco office in 2019 but by 2022 had allegedly started secretly copying files onto his personal computer. In a private message to Chinese colleagues, Mr Ding said the start-up had “experience with Google’s ten-thousand-card computational power platform”. He said: “We just need to replicate and upgrade it and then further develop a computational power platform suited to China’s national conditions.” Mr Ding allegedly asked Google colleagues to scan his badge at the company’s offices to make it appear as if he was in the US, when he was in fact visiting China.
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