> APIs, apps and cloud services would be exempt, preserving overseas access to Chinese models
Makes sense. A lot of people I have seen that use chinese models, just download it and host it on US or their country's infra, so no money goes to alibaba. If they are OK with API access, they just use anthropic or openai. This move will basically cut that tap and make it so if you want the cheaper chinese models, you have to pay deepseek or alibaba themselves.
> APIs, apps and cloud services would be exempt, preserving overseas access to Chinese models
Makes sense. A lot of people I have seen that use chinese models, just download it and host it on US or their country's infra, so no money goes to alibaba. If they are OK with API access, they just use anthropic or openai. This move will basically cut that tap and make it so if you want the cheaper chinese models, you have to pay deepseek or alibaba themselves.
Yep. This was also why some of the more idealistic open model types at Alibaba were axed.
I said this was happening months ago but no one listened.
The export control on architectures for any open-weight model with 2T or more parameters OR in the top 10 of a global leaderboard is huge.