The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies' exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race.

The U.S. government has previously accused China of targeting American AI technology and intellectual property.

The US government says it has evidence of large-scale, industrial distillation campaigns targeting American frontier models, with China as the primary culprit. Now the Trump…