China's Ministry of Commerce met with Alibaba and ByteDance to discuss limiting overseas access to advanced AI. Alibaba also blocked staff from using Anthropic's tools.
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China is considering a ban on overseas access to its most advanced artificial intelligence models, according to a Reuters report Tuesday citing sources familiar with the plans.
The discussions follow several steps by Beijing to keep domestic AI inside China, Reuters noted. Both China and the U.S. have begun viewing frontier model AI as a crucial national asset, the report added.
Chinese authorities have met with Alibaba and ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, to discuss limiting both open-source and closed-source versions of frontier AI models, two of the sources said. The meetings were headed by China's Ministry of Commerce.
Officials also discussed making the leak or theft of proprietary AI technology an offense under China's national security law, one source added. The same source said officials floated new restrictions on who can fund Chinese AI startups.
In a related move, Alibaba has blocked its workers from using Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool, CNBC reported Monday. The block came after Anthropic accused Alibaba of carrying out "the largest known distillation attack" to extract its AI capabilities. Alibaba staff were instructed to uninstall Anthropic models and use the in-house Qoder AI assistant instead.
Separately, Bloomberg News reported that China is preparing a crackdown on AI chatbots that simulate human emotions. New regulations take effect July 15, leading ByteDance and Alibaba to halt features that allow users to create and chat with AI companions. The rules stem from concern about AI chatbots mimicking human personalities and the attachment people can form with them. American tech platforms like OpenAI and Character.ai have faced lawsuits over similar issues, Bloomberg noted.
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The new chatbot regulations go into effect July 15.
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