China grants DeepSeek and MiniMax licences to keep exporting AI, Register reports
Sorted AI26 OctAfter proposing mid-October export licences for large models, agents and compute clusters, China has authorised some firms to keep selling abroad, The Register reports. Last Friday, Chinese state media reported that two companies, named elsewhere as DeepSeek and MiniMax, received authorization to continue exports. Open-source licensed tech remains exempt from the new catalogue rules, according to the report, while Beijing retains the ability to stop exports it treats as sensitive.
Why it matters: If you rely on DeepSeek or MiniMax APIs outside China, treat continued access as possible but licence-dependent; watch for sudden cut-offs on tools Beijing calls sovereign capacity.
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