[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-state-media-says-deepseek-and-minimax-can-take-ai-models-abroad":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},12354,"state-media-says-deepseek-and-minimax-can-take-ai-models-abroad","State Media Says DeepSeek and MiniMax Can Take AI Models Abroad","A CCTV-affiliated WeChat account says two Chinese AI developers have finished registration for open-source and overseas licensing rights.","DeepSeek and MiniMax, two of China's best-known AI developers, have obtained licensing rights to release open-source models and operate overseas, according to a state-linked WeChat account.\n\nThe account, Yuyuan Tantian, is affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV. In a post, it said: \"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.\" The post concerns China's AI export controls. The quoted passage names only those two companies, and it comes from the account, not from either developer.\n\nMost export-control news runs the other direction, with Washington limiting what chips and equipment can be sold to China. This passage describes Beijing running a registration process for AI work that leaves the country. Open-source models are ones a developer publishes for anyone to download, use and modify, and public releases of that kind helped build DeepSeek's profile abroad.\n\nIf registration is now the route to releasing models openly, those launches pass through a government checkpoint they may not have faced before. That is an inference from the wording, not something the quote spells out. The pairing of \"open-source\" and \"overseas\" rights suggests the two are treated as related permissions.\n\nThe open questions are what the licenses allow in practice and which developers register next. Two firms completing the process is a start, and a longer list would show how widely it applies.","[\"deepseek\",\"minimax\",\"china\",\"export-controls\"]","2026-10-25T11:11:36.000Z","2026-10-25T12:09:37.864Z","2026-10-25T12:09:38.023Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove all references to a limited source (the dek's 'the post excerpt gives no terms', 'the portion available here', 'nothing in the excerpt'), since they admit the piece was written from a truncated source; also reconcile the date ('October 22' is unsupported, as the source says 'late on Thursday'), clarify whether the export controls are 'new' or 'proposed', and either drop or clearly attribute the unsourced claims about open-source release and the 'state checkpoint' so the piece rests on wha","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The excerpt references and the 'October 22' date are gone, but the draft still says the post 'described the export controls as proposed' and that the rules are 'still taking shape'. The source text is cut off at 'export controls proposed […]', so this reads a truncated fragment as a fact; drop it or state only what the source supports, and say plainly whether the policy is new or proposed. 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