China weighs limits on the AI models American companies love

American companies have a new AI addiction: cheaper Chinese models. But as the race for artificial-intelligence supremacy heats up, Beijing is considering tightening its grip on homegrown technology.

Across Silicon Valley, models made by Chinese companies such as DeepSeek and Moonshot AI have become core to daily work at companies large and small, offering a less costly alternative and supplement to the products of OpenAI and Anthropic.

Chinese officials have recently held discussions with domestic AI labs that produce the country’s most powerful models about how to safeguard their valuable proprietary technology, according to people familiar with the matter. Beijing is concerned that sharing some of this technology could help adversaries or other malicious actors and ultimately get weaponized against China, the people said.

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