We may already be entering an AI Cold War. Axios reports that the U.S. Commerce Department considered adding several Chinese AI labs to the Entity List， while the NSA has used security warnings to make Chinese open-source models appear riskier and costlier to adopt. Since Sriram Krishnan's departure， hawkish voices in the White House have grown louder. Meanwhile， U.S. closed-model labs and their allies repeatedly push restrictions on open-source AI-helping preserve an increasingly fragile oligopoly. Washington is building barriers around China's model capabilities； Beijing is also weighing controls to keep sensitive models from external use. The AI-era Wassenaar Arrangement may not be far away.
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美国商务部考虑将多家中国AI实验室列入实体清单，NSA也以安全警告为由抬高中国开源模型的采用成本。白宫内鹰派声音渐强，美国闭源模型实验室及其盟友持续推动限制开源AI，以维护日益脆弱的寡头格局。华盛顿正围绕中国模型能力构筑壁垒，北京也在考虑管控敏感模型外流，AI时代的瓦森纳协定或已不远。
We may already be entering an AI Cold War. Axios reports that the U.S. Commerce Department considered adding several Chinese AI labs to the Entity List， while the NSA has used security warnings to make Chinese open-source models appear riskier and costlier to adopt. Since Sriram Krishnan's departure， hawkish voices in the White House have grown louder. Meanwhile， U.S. closed-model labs and their allies repeatedly push restrictions on open-source AI-helping preserve an increasingly fragile oligopoly. Washington is building barriers around China's model capabilities； Beijing is also weighing controls to keep sensitive models from external use. The AI-era Wassenaar Arrangement may not be far away.