Is China Really Stealing A.I. From American Companies? NYT - Technology By: Cade Metz 25 September 2026 at 15:02 As Xi Jinping visits President Trump in Washington, the leaders are expected to discuss claims that China is surreptitiously copying American A.I. technologies, a process known as distillation. ยฉ Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse โ Getty ImagesThe Chinese companies Z.ai and Moonshot are not far behind Anthropic and OpenAI.