China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China released Announcement No. 48 on October 16, 2026, proposing to include 40 technologies in the 'Catalogue of Prohibited or Restricted Export Technologies'. Among them, 23 involve artificial intelligence and implement temporary pre-export registration requirements. This announcement restricts model weights, key checkpoints, source code, architecture, and training and inference optimization technologies that meet specific thresholds (such as at least 10^26 FLOPs training computing, at least 2 trillion parameters, or a global ranking of the top 10), and sets clear technical thresholds for agent architectures and AI-enabled offensive network capabilities.
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How the accounts differ:Recode China AI states the ban covers 40 items, while Hacker News specifies 23 items as AI-related.
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China implements first controls on the export of cutting-edge AI: Ministry of Commerce Notice No. 48
Adds:Hacker News specifies the threshold for restricted models as at least 10^26 FLOPs in training computing power, 2 trillion parameters, or top 10 global ranking.
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