Yuyuan Tantian: DeepSeek and MiniMax Have Completed Registration Procedures and Finished Open-Sourcing and Overseas Authorized Use

October 22 — Yuyuan Tantian said in an article that on October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology publicly solicited opinions on the revision of the Catalogue of Technologies Prohibited and Restricted from Export (hereinafter the "Catalogue"). It covers 23 AI-related technologies, including large models, agents, computing power clusters and information processing.

After the Catalogue was released, some people raised questions: China emphasizes technological openness, so why suddenly impose "export restrictions" on AI? Is this a signal of a policy shift? It is understood that since the policy was announced, DeepSeek and MiniMax, two leading companies, have smoothly completed registration procedures and finished open-sourcing and overseas authorized use. In a related Q&A, the Ministry of Commerce's explanation of "what is not regulated" is clearly longer and more specific than its explanation of "what is to be regulated." This also shows that the core of the Catalogue is to delineate boundaries, rather than simply restricting the export of AI technology.