Is China Really Stealing A.I. From American Companies? NYT: Technology By: Cade Metz 25 September 2026 at 11:02 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. Β© Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse β Getty ImagesThe Chinese companies Z.ai and Moonshot are not far behind Anthropic and OpenAI.