Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/

At the meetings, led by China's Ministry of Commerce, participants discussed putting limits on the most advanced AI models — ⁠both closed-source and more open versions, according to two of the sources.

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breakingcups@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 29d

Well... That would suck.

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de · 2 pts · 29d

Not a lot of information in there... Is it casual talk or do they plan to follow up on it? Is it restricting the inference providers? Or the downloadable models the Chinese publish all the time? Do they stop altogether? Or mandate stricter guardrails in front?

SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 28d

Called it. Whether this is sabre rattling or not, we (really) need something FOSS like Apertus to become a third viable player.

Open weights is cool...open source is better.