CHINA MAY RESTRICT ACCESS TO ITS MOST POWERFUL AI MODELS

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Chinese authorities have held talks with major Chinese AI companies about whether to restrict foreign access to their most advanced models. No decisions have been made yet, but officials are considering options like a bar on public release or a limit to domestic use only. China's AI companies have become popular partly because they are free and open source. Closing access would mean surrendering the lever that drove China's rise.