US-China AI Model Export Controls Escalate

shaunralston · x · 2026-07-07

Following the US Commerce Department's restrictions on accessing frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI, reports indicate that China is considering limiting the overseas use of models like DeepSeek R1, Alibaba's Qwen, ByteDance's Doubao, and Zhipu's GLM. The author argues that the new moat is no longer intelligence itself, but rather "licensing."

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