DeepSeek, MiniMax Complete Registration Under China’s Revised AI Export Rules

The compliance milestone matters less as a regulatory formality than as a signal that Beijing is building an export-control architecture around frontier models themselves, not just hardware. DeepSeek and MiniMax moving first suggests larger domestic labs may become the template for how Chinese AI ships abroad under licence. The open question is whether the public-comment catalogue tightens further before it is finalised, and whether smaller developers face the same registration burden as these two flagships.