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DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed export registration procedures and moved ahead with open-source releases and overseas licensing, the South China Morning Post reports, citing Chinese state media.
Why it mattersThe reported steps follow draft Chinese rules tightening oversight of AI technology transfers, including registration requirements for covered technologies. That makes this a useful early signal: the rules have not, according to the account, stopped these firms pursuing overseas activity. The practical test will be what they can actually release and license.
Discuss: Should China’s AI export rules prioritise oversight of technology transfers, or give developers clearer room to expand overseas?
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Watch Desk Update What changedCrypto Briefing says China’s draft export rules cover a catalogue of 23 AI-related technologies, released for public comment by the commerce and science ministries on 16 October. The catalogue’s final shape will determine which technologies face the controls.
The report says open-source AI technologies may qualify for accelerated automatic licensing. That could offer developers a faster route to releasing models abroad, though the rules remain a draft.
API access and software-as-a-service offerings are outside the reported scope. Overseas users accessing Chinese models through an online service may therefore face a different position from those downloading the models themselves, according to Crypto Briefing.
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- DeepSeek and MiniMax reportedly first to clear China’s new AI export registration - Crypto Briefing: Crypto Briefing reports that China’s draft AI export rules cover 23 technologies, may allow accelerated automatic licensing for open-source AI, and exclude API and SaaS access from their scope.
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