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China weighs tighter export controls on AI models and chips (www.ft.com)

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Beijing consults companies on ways to stop west acquiring its advanced technologies and star start-ups.

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Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies, as the US-China rivalry intensifies in cutting-edge AI.

Regulators led by the Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) have been consulting leading domestic AI and chipmaking groups on how to prevent China’s advanced technologies and star start-ups from being acquired by the west, according to two people involved in the discussions.

MofCom talked to AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance and Zhipu on limiting the transfer of key data for the training of their models overseas, as well as allowing their model weights to be downloaded by foreign users, the people said.

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MofCom has also sought views on possible restrictions that would prevent overseas chipmakers including Qualcomm and TSMC from producing advanced semiconductors based on designs developed by Chinese companies such as Huawei, Alibaba and ByteDance, according to the people.

Potential restrictions could also be imposed on the overseas acquisition of strategic technology groups in areas such as agentic AI, the people said. This is mainly to address a loophole that Beijing believes to have led to Meta’s $2bn acquisition of Manus, a deal that was subsequently ordered to be unwound by Chinese authorities.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 2 months ago

Good. Do some retaliatory import bans, too, fuckin cowards.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They export chips? Arent their chips dogshit. Also export controls on their models would be stupid. They are only good in a context of.undercutting the us. If they introduce export controls people will use US models. I can't imagine anyone competitive is distilling models off Chinese AI.

They absolutely 1000% should be preventing the west from acquiring their startups and talent. They need to keep growing the domestic talent.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The chips aren't dogshit, they're on par with others from a couple years ago. Once they work out the kinks in the process, they'll be at par. Time will tell if they manage to surpass Intel/AMD/Nvidia. Same deal with the models.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz -1 points 2 months ago

We have different definitions of on par.