The mainland Chinese government is considering a major expansion of its technology export rules that could affect foreign organisations’ ability to make use of the country’s popular open-weight models, the Financial Times reported, at a time when Chinese models have outpaced their proprietary US competitors in global adoption.
Other restrictions being considered could affect the export of AI training data, acquisitions of strategically important Chinese companies by foreign firms, and the ability of domestic chip designers to manufacture products with foreign companies such as Taiwan’s TSMC, the FT report said.
China’s Ministry of Commerce has consulted with domestic AI and chip companies about ways of preventing the transfer of critical technologies outside the country and stopping significant Chinese firms from falling under Western control, the report said, citing two unnamed people.
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