“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing rights.”

That is what Yuyuan Tantian, a WeChat account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV, said in a post late on Thursday. The post sets out how the China AI export controls proposed on 16 October will work. Most AI technology will stay free to export, it said.

DeepSeek and MiniMax did not immediately reply to requests for comment, Reuters reported. DeepSeek reportedly raised $15bn from Tencent and CATL this week. TNW has not independently verified the post.

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