Progression

China is considering blocking overseas access to its top AI models, including open-weight and unreleased ones.The Ministry of Commerce has been meeting with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Zhipu AI. Discussions include treating AI tech leaks as national security crimes, restricting foreign investment in Chinese AI startups, and possibly creating a tiered system that limits the most advanced models to domestic use only.

This is Beijing’s response to tightened U.S. export controls on advanced AI.

Edit: Apparently, this story was debunked a few hours after it was published.