New Delhi, April 25 -- The United States has initiated a global diplomatic push alleging intellectual property theft by Chinese AI companies, according to a diplomatic cable seen by Reuters. The warning arrives shortly after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek made a grand comeback in the AI arena as it launched its highly anticipated V4 model, which is adapted for Huawei chip technology and is claimed to be on par with Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT-5.4 on various tasks.

US warns about Chinese AI models:

According to the Reuters report, the cable sent to US diplomatic posts globally on Friday asked officials to speak to their foreign counterparts about "concerns over adversaries' use and distillation of US AI models."

"A separate demarche request and...