The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology plan to add 23 AI technologies, including large models and agents, to the export control catalog

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Joint Announcement No. 48, proposing to add a total of 40 technologies in three major fields—artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and photovoltaics—to the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China. Among them, the 23 AI items cover large models, agents, computing power clusters, and information processing-related technologies, and interim registration management will be implemented immediately before the catalog takes effect. The author's analysis holds that technologies already in the public domain through open source or published papers may be exempted, but parts where only weights are open-sourced while know-how such as training methods and data engineering remains undisclosed are still within the scope of management; agent services such as Manus and Lovart are in principle unaffected, but three structures may trigger registration: deploying the technology stack to overseas servers, exporting Agent technology to overseas entities, or changing control to an overseas entity.