The Biden administration announced a bold and controversial new export control scheme today, designed to keep advanced chips and self-made intelligence models out of the hands of adversaries such as China. which is allowed relatively unfettered access to the most sophisticated AI silicon and American algorithms, and which requires a special license to access the technology. The rules, which will be enforced by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, also seek to limit the movement of the most powerful AI models for the first time. design, and it’s critical that we keep it that way,” said US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo ahead of today’s announcement. The list of trusted countries is the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands , New Zealand, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan. Companies in other countries that are not subject to arms control will be able to get up to 1,700 of the latest AI chips without special permission. They will be able to apply for a special license to get more chip, to build scale data centers large by using U.S. technology, or gaining access to the most powerful closed model made by U.S. companies. Companies must have adequate physical and cyber security to obtain a license. Supply chain activities, including chip design, manufacturing, and storage will exempted from the rule.The rule also would not restrict open-source AI models such as Meta’s Llama, the administration said. Countries with arms embargoes such as China, Iran, and North Korea have been barred from obtaining advanced chips. The new rules will for the first time limit access to advanced models [AI] and the weight of the model, as we all know, dual use technology,” added Raimondo ahead of the announcement. “They are used in many commercial applications, but they can also be used by our enemies to run nuclear simulations, develop bioweapons and advance their military.” But , the rule will certainly cause controversy, as it could reduce the sale of AI at a critical moment for the industry. The decision sets a 120-day consultation period, which means that the Trump administration will be expected to listen to the rules mentioned, and then implement it. blog post. “While cloaked in the guise of ‘anti-China’ measures, this rule will do nothing to improve US security. Instead of reducing the threat, Biden’s new rule will only harm America’s global competitiveness, destroying the innovation that keeps the US moving forward. can build cutting algorithms using computer clusters located in other countries. Under the new rules, China will not be able to create frontier AI models in other countries affected by the rules.
