A measuring gauge on a workbench with its marker set near the far end of the scale, far past a row of small components

The Threshold in China's AI Export Draft Is 2 Trillion Parameters.

China published draft export controls today covering 23 AI technologies, and the open-weight world spent the afternoon working out whether the models it depends on are about to stop appearing. The proposed size threshold answers most of that. It sits around 280 times above the image model we checked on launch day.

October 16, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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