Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China

Key points

• The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly.1
• We’ve seen many news items in the last week showing both the U.S. and Chinese governments positioning themselves for some controls on open models.1
• It is not clear how this will relate to finetuned models or models trained on the outputs of DeepSeek (e.g., Nvidia’s Nemotron models have long relied heavily on DeepSeek models in their training recipes – will they be banned?), but this is an expected action and reinforces the need for a domestic open model ecosystem.1
• While not an open model or dataset, we consider this release to be one of the bigger open-source AI artifacts in the last few months.1

Sources (1)

• [1]Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China
  Interconnects (Nathan Lambert) · Oct 20, 05:04 PM

  - MOFCOM, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, released a policy proposal (it’s not yet a law) that would require frontier AI models and some other technologies to get pre-approval from the government before they can be shared internationally.

  The geopolitics of open-weight AI are accelerating again this fall, as we would expect with the risks of all AI systems (open and closed) rising rapidly.

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