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Chinese state-run Securities Times reported that Chinese regulators last week approved a total of 14 large-scale language models (LLMs) for public use. This is the fourth licensing package issued by China, which has also licensed models from Xiaomi, 4Paradigm, 01.AI and others.
Since last August, Beijing has required technology companies to obtain permission from regulators if they make their AI language models public. This highlights China's approach to developing artificial intelligence technology as it seeks to keep it under its surveillance and control.
Beijing approved the first prototypes of AI in August, shortly after the licensing process was approved. Baidu, Alibaba and ByteDance were among the first Chinese companies to obtain the license.
Chinese regulators then granted approval to the companies in two additional rounds in November and December. Although the government has not published the exact list of approved models, the Securities Times reported on Sunday that more than 40 AI models have been approved so far.
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