Tusimple (now Createai), which works by self-driving, has sent a set of sensitive data-on the effective American independent vehicle system plan-to a company owned by Beijing after adhering to the United States government that it will stop such transfers under the National Security Agreement, according to the company Wall Street Magazine.
The operations of the Chinese truck manufacturer Foton occurred in about February 2022, just one week after Tusimple signed the agreement in which American organizers ordered the company to separate its business and technology from the employees and partners in China with the walls of protection and governance controls. The data sharing continued until the TUSIMLE deadline to comply with the agreement after six months, according to hundreds of pages of correspondence that the magazine saw.
A later investigation with the Foreign Investment Committee in the United States (CFIUS) found that the exchange of data does not violate the agreement technically, although Tusimple was fined due to other violations and a settlement of $ 6 million paid without recognizing it, according to the magazine.
Techcrunch was unable to reach Tusimple, now Createai, to comment.
However, the Tusimple data epic to China reveals the limits of US guarantees aimed at balancing foreign investment with national security. And not only the data that Tusimple tries to bypass the borders.
This last revelation comes eight months after Techcrunch stated that some of Tusimple shareholders are trying to prevent the company from transferring its American money – approximately $ 450 million at that time – to the Chinese subsidiary of the company to finance an animation axis and generate content from artificial intelligence. This drama is still revealing as one of the founders of Tusimple, Xiaodi Hou, in court to control his shares in voting so that he can press to liquidate the company. In December 2024, Tusimple was officially renamed.
The company has been involved in the controversy since it came out of the public subscription in 2021. Tusimple started as a startup backed in China, founded in 2015 by Ho Lu Chen, a businessman with relationships with Sina Corp. Soon, it became one of the first place in the automotive industry, as it became one of the preferred in the field of short services, as it was the first place in the field of public services in the field of management. Highway.
Tusimple plans have taken a turn to the worse amid internal conflicts and federal investigations into the company’s relations with China, which led to its decision to leave the American and long -term operations voluntarily from the stock market in January 2024. The goal was to restart the operations known for work in China, but it is known for financial work. Techcrunch.
In the magazine highlights a previous controversy reported on Hydron, a Chinese -emerging company in the Chinese hydrogen transportation field founded by Chen, which participated in a office with Tusimple China. The overlap between Hydron and Tusimple was the theme of the CFIUS 2022 probe, where Tusimple revealed that its employees were spending paid hours in Hydron in 2021 and sharing secret information with the company.
According to the documents in the magazine, Tusimple negotiated a deal in 2021 between Hydron and Foton to develop independent trucks. Foton, a state -owned BAIC company, has an agreement with a Chinese military university to work in AV Tech.
With a set of emails, recession messages and video calls, Tusimple has sent technical instructions to the server dimensions, brake design, sensors, orientation, power source and chips in the magazine. The employees were also routinely downloaded in the code of the autonomy source developed by their American counterparts.
With the high geopolitical tensions and competition with China, tusimple ties act as a warning story for Washington that helped pushing a transformation in the United States policy, prompting strict rules on Chinese technical deals and feeding a wider batch to prevent high risk transactions.
