China puts 23 AI technologies under export control for the first time

China's Commerce Ministry updated its export-control catalog: 40 technologies are listed, 23 of them AI-related, covering model architectures, training methods and inference optimization. Fourteen items are banned from export outright and 26 require a license; models at or above 2 trillion parameters fall under review.

• 23 of the 40 catalog items are AI technologies
• 14 technologies are banned from export, 26 need a license
• Review threshold set at models of 2 trillion parameters and above
• Controls cover architectures, training and inference stacks