🇨🇳 wow. China is drafting rules to stop its most advanced AI and chip designs from reaching the West.
Regulators at the Ministry of Commerce have asked Alibaba， ByteDance and Zhipu how to keep frontier work home.
The talks cover training data leaving the country and whether foreigners can still download model weights.
Chinese customers would keep full access， but the raw building blocks would stay inside China.
Beijing worries because its top models are open-weight， so anyone can download and run them locally.
After Kimi K3， the gap with America has nearly closed， and China now sees itself in front. So it wants the same controls Washington has used against it.
The chip side goes further.
It would block Qualcomm and TSMC from making advanced chips based on Huawei or Alibaba designs.
Another move would stop foreign buyouts of agentic AI startups.
That follows Meta's $2B purchase of Manus， which Chinese authorities later forced to unwind.
Companies warn the limits could slow their progress and cost China the race.
The rules may enter China's next export catalogue， its largest revision in years.
The real shift is psychological， because Beijing now guards AI like it once guarded rare earths.
Openness was the underdog's strategy， and China no longer sees itself as one.