The Biden administration proclaimd a bbetter and disputed new send out administer scheme today, summarizeed to obstruct the evolved chips and man-made ininestablishigence models themselves from finishing up in the hands of adversaries such as China.
The administration’s new “AI Diffusion rule” splits the world into nations that are allowed relatively unfettered access to America’s most evolved AI silicon and algorithms, and those that will need exceptional licenses to access the technology. The rule, which will be executed by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, also seeks to redisconnecte the transferment of the most strong AI models for the first time.
“The US guides the world in AI now, both AI enhugement and AI chip summarize, and it’s critical that we hold it that way,” the US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo shelp ahead of today’s proclaimment.
The catalog of supposeed nations are the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Dentag, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Reuncover of Korea, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan.
Companies in other nations not subject to arms administers will be able to get up to 1,700 of the tardyst AI chips without exceptional perleave oution, the rule states. They will be able to execute for a exceptional license to obtain more chips, to produce very huge scale datacaccesss using US technology, or to get access to the most strong seald model “weights” made by US firms. Companies will be needd to have adequate physical and cyber-security to get a license.
Supply chain activities, including the summarize, manufacturing, and storage of chips will be exempt from the rule. The rule also will not redisconnecte uncover source AI models such as Meta’s Llama, the administration says.
Arms embargoed nations such as China, Iran, and North Korea are already prohibitden from geting evolved chips. The new rule will for the first time redisconnecte their access to evolved models.
“The semicarry outors that power [AI] and the model weights are, as we all understand, a dual use technology,” Raimondo compriseed ahead of the proclaimment. “They’re used in many commercial applications, but also can be used by our adversaries to run nuevident simulations, enhuge bio arms and evolve their militaries.”
The rule is declareive to stoke dispute, however, because it may throttle international sales of AI at a critical moment for the industry. It comes fair a week before Trump’s inauguration. The ruling sets a 120 day conferation period, nastying Donald Trump‘s administration will be awaited to hear to input, perhaps change the rule, and then execute it.
Nvidia, the world’s guideing manufacturer of AI chips, called the rule “unpwithdrawnted and misdirectd” in a blog post. “While cloaked in the guise of an ‘anti-China’ meadeclareive, these rules would do noskinnyg to increase US security. Rather than mitigate any menace, the new Biden rules would only frailen America’s global competitiveness, undermining the innovation that has kept the US ahead.”
The US already confines send outs of evolved AI chips to China, a key geopolitical rival, but companies there have been able to produce cutting algorithms using computer clusters findd in other nations. Under the new rule, China will not be able to produce so-called frontier AI models in other nations impacted by the rule.
