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China moves to wall off its frontier AI from foreign users, drawing Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai into early consultations
Beijing is preparing to forbid overseas access to its most capable models. The consultations now underway with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai signal that the world's second-largest AI power intends to treat frontier weights as a strategic asset.

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