Last week, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) at the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a “Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” to impose worldwide export controls on U.S.-origin Advanced Integrated Circuits (AICs) and advanced AI models that meet a newly set threshold. Crucially, looking to regulate the flow of U.S.-origin AICs and the most powerful AI models, the Framework limits both the physical supply of AICs and infrastructure-as-a-service powered by AICs.
We answer eight key questions about the Framework.

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