The State Department designated Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, MiraclePlus and three related entities tied to Linwei Ding's conviction

OFAC’s wind-down license gives covered MiraclePlus transactions a January 19, 2027 deadline; China’s response has not yet specified a countermeasure.

The US State Department sanctioned Chinese venture firm MiraclePlus and three affiliates for funding an AI startup linked to IP theft.

Met gestolen bedrijfsgeheimen richtte een ex-Google-ingenieur een startup op. Washington pakt nu ook durfkapitalisten zoals MiraclePlus aan en bevriest hun Amerikaanse tegoeden.

MiraclePlus took an ownership stake in a startup built on stolen Google chip secrets. Now Washington has put the venture firm on its sanctions list too. The State Department announced sanctions on October 19 against five China-based entities tied to Linwei Ding, the former Google engineer convicted of stealing the company's AI infrastructure secrets. The list includes Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, the AI startup Ding founded in 2023, and MiraclePlus, the Beijing venture firm that gave Zhisuan its seed money in exchange for an ownership stake. Two MiraclePlus-managed funds, Beijing Qiji Chuangtan Phase I and Phase II, and a Phase I subsidiary round out the list. Here's the detail that gives this story its edge: MiraclePlus is what's left of Y Combinator China. Y Combinator opened a China unit in 2018 under Qi Lu, a former Microsoft and Baidu executive. It shut the operation down in November 2019 as the US-China trade war made the arrangement untenable. Lu spun the team out into an independent firm he named MiraclePlus. The firm never stopped doing what YC China was built to do: fund and mentor Chinese startups, many of them modelled closely on the Silicon Valley playbook it inherited. The sanctions order,...

Estados Unidos sancionó el 19 de octubre de 2026 a MiraclePlus, una firma china de capital de riesgo, por su respaldo a Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, la startup fundada por el exingeniero de Google Linwei Ding. La medida alcanza a cinco entidades y extiende las consecuencias del caso de robo de secretos de inteligencia artificial a la empresa y a sus financiadores. La Oficina de Control de Activos Extranjeros (OFAC), dependiente del Departamento del Tesoro, registró las sanciones bajo la Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA), la ley estadounidense para proteger la propiedad intelectual. Además de Zhisuan y MiraclePlus, figuran los fondos Beijing Qiji Chuangtan Phase I y Phase II, y Beijing Qiji Chuangtan Zhiyuan Enterprise Management Center. El Departamento de Estado sostiene que MiraclePlus proporcionó apoyo financiero vinculado al robo. Según el despacho de IANS publicado por The Hawk, Ding presentó Zhisuan al programa de incubación de la firma y promocionó su conocimiento de la tecnología de Google. MiraclePlus aportó capital semilla a cambio de una participación en la startup. No se localizó una respuesta pública de la firma a estas medidas. ## La condena por robo y la absolución por espionaje El Departamento de Justicia informó que un jurado declaró culpable a Ding el 29 de enero de 2026 de siete cargos de robo de secretos comerciales. La información sustraída se refería al hardware y al software que permiten a los centros de supercomputación de Google entrenar y ejecutar grandes modelos de IA. El fallo inicial también incluía siete cargos de espionaje económico, pero esa parte cambió en agosto. Reuters, en su reporte publicado por The Indian Express, informó que el juez federal Vince Chhabria absolvió a Ding de esos cargos porque faltaban pruebas suficientes de que supiera o pretendiera beneficiar al Gobierno chino. El juez mantuvo las condenas por robo de secretos comerciales. ## Restricciones financieras con un plazo limitado de cierre Las medidas que recoge la OFAC incluyen bloqueo de activos y restricciones sobre transferencias bancarias y operaciones de divisas sujetas a jurisdicción estadounidense. También prohíben a personas estadounidenses invertir o adquirir cantidades significativas de instrumentos de capital o deuda de las entidades sancionadas. La licencia general 2 del Tesoro autoriza ciertas operaciones necesarias para cerrar transacciones con MiraclePlus, los fondos Phase I y Phase II y Zhiyuan. El plazo vence el 19 de enero de 2027 a las 00:01, hora estándar del Este de Estados Unidos: las 06:01 en España peninsular y las 23:01 del 18 de enero en el centro de México. Zhisuan no aparece entre las entidades nombradas en la licencia. La autorización también abarca entidades propiedad de las cuatro anteriores en un 50 % o más, de forma individual o conjunta, directa o indirecta. Los pagos a entidades sujetas al bloqueo deben dirigirse a cuentas bloqueadas en Estados Unidos. _Fuentes:_ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The State Department designated Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, MiraclePlus and three related entities tied to Linwei Ding's conviction

The US sanctioned MiraclePlus and Zhisuan, the startup of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, convicted of stealing Google AI chip secrets. What it means.

Bloomberg: The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets  —  Washington has blacklisted a Chinese venture firm established by ex-Microsoft Corp. AI scientist Lu Qi for alleged ties …

Bloomberg: **The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets** — Washington has blacklisted a Chinese venture firm established by ex-Microsoft Corp. AI scientist Lu Qi for alleged ties …

Washington a inscrit sur sa liste noire un fonds d’investissement chinois créé par Lu Qi, ancien chercheur en IA chez Microsoft Corp., en raison de liens présumés.

Firms include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, MiraclePlus and three related entities.

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I didn't understand web deployment, didn't understand SEO—just had an idea to record my thoughts. Website live in two days, MiraclePlus reached out in a week. This is my firsthand experience with Claude Code.