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    Note: View the superseding indictment here.

    A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Linwei Ding, also referred to as Leon Ding, 38, with 7 counts of financial espionage and seven counts of theft of trade tricks in connection with an alleged plan to take from Google LLC (Google) proprietary details connected to AI technology.

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

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

    While Ding was utilized by Google, he secretly affiliated himself with two People's Republic of China (PRC)- based innovation business. Around June 2022, Ding remained in discussions to be the Chief Technology Officer for an early-stage innovation company based in the PRC. By May 2023, Ding had actually founded his own innovation business focused on AI and artificial intelligence in the PRC and was acting as the .

    The superseding indictment declares that Ding intended to benefit the PRC federal government by stealing trade secrets from Google. Ding supposedly stole technology associating with the hardware facilities and software application platform that permits Google's supercomputing data center to train and serve large AI designs. The trade secrets contain detailed details about the architecture and performance of Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) chips and systems and Google's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) systems, the software application that allows the chips to communicate and carry out tasks, setiathome.berkeley.edu and the software that manages countless chips into a supercomputer capable of training and carrying out innovative AI work. The trade tricks also pertain to Google's custom-made SmartNIC, a kind of network interface card utilized to improve Google's GPU, high performance, and cloud networking items.

    As alleged, Ding circulated a PowerPoint presentation to workers of his technology company pointing out PRC national policies motivating the advancement of the domestic AI market. He also created a PowerPoint discussion containing an application to a PRC skill program based in Shanghai. The superseding indictment explains how PRC-sponsored skill programs incentivize individuals engaged in research study and development outside the PRC to send that knowledge and research to the PRC in exchange for incomes, research study funds, laboratory area, or other rewards. Ding's application for the talent program stated that his company's item "will help China to have calculating power facilities capabilities that are on par with the global level."

    If founded guilty, Ding deals with an optimum charge of 10 years in jail and approximately 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 figure out any sentence after thinking about the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory elements.

    The FBI is investigating 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 coordinated through the Justice and Commerce Departments' Disruptive Technology Strike Force. The Disruptive Technology Strike Force is an interagency police strike force co-led by the Departments of Justice and Commerce designed to target illegal stars, safeguard supply chains, and prevent critical technology from being obtained by authoritarian programs and hostile nation-states.

    A superseding indictment is simply a claims. All accuseds are presumed innocent till tested guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a law court.