China is weighing restrictions on foreign access to its open-weight models.

Reuters reports authorities spent the past month debating limits on overseas access to the country's most advanced models, including unreleased systems, in talks involving Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. Officials discussed curbing foreign access to open-weight releases, not just closed ones, plus tougher AI-theft penalties under national-security law and limits on who may fund domestic AI startups. Read this against the Databricks default switch and the Vercel multi-lab stack. A lot of Western infrastructure just took a policy dependency on Beijing.