{"slug": "chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know", "title": "China’s AI Export Controls: What DeepSeek and Qwen Users Must Know", "summary": "China's Ministry of Commerce published draft export controls on October 16 (Announcement No. 48) that would add 40 technologies to the country's export control catalogue, 23 of them in AI, covering model weights above 2 trillion parameters, multi-step agents, frontier chip designs, checkpoints, source code and training methods. The draft targets Chinese frontier models including DeepSeek and Qwen, and the article states a registration requirement is already live for users who ship code calling those models.", "body_md": "China just put its most powerful AI models behind a licensing wall — and the registration requirement is already live. On October 16, China’s Ministry of Commerce published draft export controls targeting model weights above 2 trillion parameters, multi-step agents, and frontier chip designs. If you ship code that calls DeepSeek, Qwen, or any Chinese frontier model, here is what actually changed — and what did not. What MOFCOM Announced Announcement No. 48 proposes adding 40 technologies — 23 of them in AI — to China’s export control catalogue. The draft covers model weights, checkpoints, source code, and training methods […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know", "canonical_source": "https://byteiota.com/chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know/", "published_at": "2026-11-02 22:05:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-02 22:20:33.741316+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "large-language-models", "ai-safety", "ai-chips"], "entities": ["Ministry of Commerce of China", "DeepSeek", "Qwen", "Announcement No. 48"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinas-ai-export-controls-what-deepseek-and-qwen-users-must-know.jsonld"}}