The draft export catalogue adds 40 technologies across artificial intelligence, solar manufacturing and biotechnology, banning 14 items and restricting 26. The 23 AI entries require government approval to transfer overseas the weights, checkpoints or source code of models with at least 2T parameters, training compute of at least 10^26 operations, or a global top 10 ranking in performance, usage, safety or training efficiency. The proposal also bans exports of models trained on national core data and AI systems that autonomously generate malware beating mainstream antivirus software at least 85% of the time or rewrite at least 50% of their code per execution.
While deploying restricted models on foreign servers requires a license, the commerce ministry clarified that API access, web and app interfaces, software-as-a-service and lightweight on-device deployments do not count as large-model technology exports. Models already in the public domain through open-source release or academic papers are exempt, and Beijing said new open-source releases, overseas chip tape-outs and foreign computing centers operated by Chinese firms will qualify for automatic licensing to proceed upon filing.