Sudo su(@sudoingX):three weeks ago america pulled fable 5 offline overnight. today reuters reports china is discussing restrictions on overseas access to its own top models. alibaba, bytedance, https://t.co/WEz2x3xYBx, all in the room. closed models, open weights, even unreleased ones on the table. read that again. the only two countries producing frontier models are now both drafting rules to keep them home. and here's the part nobody wants to say out loud. china open sourced its way up. qwen, deepseek, glm, free weights flooding the world while they were behind. now glm 5.2 sits beside the frontier and suddenly beijing is talking about state assets and national security crimes. everyone loves open source until they're ahead. nations, labs, all of them. openness was never a philosophy. it was a strategy for second place. i said your ai bill should be your electricity bill. i'm adding a deadline to that. the weights on your drive are the only ai on earth that no ministry, no congress, no boardroom can reach. and if you think it stops at the models, look at where a rule like this gets enforced. the download page. huggingface is the chokepoint. maybe it never comes to that. fill your nvme like it will. one more thing. the loudest essays making the case for export controls came from the ceo of the closed lab whose own model just got export controlled. dario wrote the argument for the wall. now every wall going up leaves metered apis as the only lane left open. i don't need to guess what's in anyone's heart. the incentives are doing all the talking, and they all point at the meter. this is the worst outcome. and it was a choice. the window is closing from both sides. download while downloading is still a thing.

2026.07.07 15:24

three weeks ago america pulled fable 5 offline overnight. today reuters reports china is discussing restrictions on overseas access to its own top models. alibaba, bytedance, all in the room. closed models, open weights, even unreleased ones on the table. read that again. the only two countries producing frontier models are now both drafting rules to keep them home. and here's the part nobody wants to say out loud. china open sourced its way up. qwen, deepseek, glm, free weights flooding the world while they were behind. now glm 5.2 sits beside the frontier and suddenly beijing is talking about state assets and national security crimes. everyone loves open source until they're ahead. nations, labs, all of them. openness was never a philosophy. it was a strategy for second place. i said your ai bill should be your electricity bill. i'm adding a deadline to that. the weights on your drive are the only ai on earth that no ministry, no congress, no boardroom can reach. and if you think it stops at the models, look at where a rule like this gets enforced. the download page. huggingface is the chokepoint. maybe it never comes to that. fill your nvme like it will. one more thing. the loudest essays making the case for export controls came from the ceo of the closed lab whose own model just got export controlled. dario wrote the argument for the wall. now every wall going up leaves metered apis as the only lane left open. i don't need to guess what's in anyone's heart. the incentives are doing all the talking, and they all point at the meter. this is the worst outcome. and it was a choice. the window is closing from both sides. download while downloading is still a thing.

Jukan@jukan05

2026.07.07 10:42

CHINA CONSIDERS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS ACCESS TO CUTTING-EDGE AI MODELS China’s Ministry of Commerce has led meetings over the past month with major AI companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance, and to discuss measures that would restrict overseas access to cutting-edge AI models, including models that have not yet been released. The discussions reportedly include not only closed-source models but also open-weight models. However, the scope of application is still under debate, and the rules may ultimately apply only to future frontier models. Officials have also discussed designating the leakage or theft of proprietary AI technologies as a national security crime, with stronger penalties, as well as restricting the types of foreign capital that can invest in Chinese AI startups. The backdrop is the U.S. move to strengthen export controls on AI models, along with national security concerns over cutting-edge models that could possess advanced cyberattack capabilities. Chinese authorities are reportedly concerned that advanced U.S. cybersecurity AI models could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in Chinese software. Since the beginning of this year, China has continued to tighten measures to prevent AI technology from being transferred overseas. Authorities have investigated whether Chinese AI startups that relocated abroad violated export control laws, while also strengthening oversight of overseas transactions involving Chinese investors, technology, data, and national security concerns. Future regulations could take the form of a tiered framework based on technological capability. Basic open-source AI models may be managed through a filing system, high-performance models may be subject to security reviews, and the most sensitive frontier models may be banned from public release or restricted to use within China.

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