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submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Grimy to c/technology
 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025’’.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

(a) PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION.—On and after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China is prohibited.

Currently, China has the best open source models in text, video and music generation.

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[–] db2 75 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not even in to this shit and I'm going to download it right now because fuck those assholes.

[–] YarHarSuperstar 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Can someone explain briefly what I need to download that might not be available if this comes to pass? Like I did some searching and I saw stuff about Ollama but it wasn't completely clear if that would be affected by this.

[–] Evotech 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Technically this isn't the case. These are Deepseek distilled with Qwen and Llama depending on the weight, so they are no longer Deepseek.

@[email protected] this is the official, extremely large, one. https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

holy shit, you weren't kidding when you said it was large.

[–] Evotech 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

Well yes, it does specifically say so in the link. There's also one with the full model in what I linked

[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago

Oh nice, when Ollama first had this up I don't think the 671b model was there. I stand corrected on that!

[–] YarHarSuperstar 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So if I download this and somehow there is no longer a way to access the model online this will still work? I'm just a bit confused because I read a couple things that made it seem like even though the model is running locally it still needs a connection for some reason, if that isn't true I'm sorry for the dumb question.

[–] Evotech 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

On first run it downloads the model, then you just run it locally

[–] YarHarSuperstar 3 points 7 hours ago

Thank you, that answers my question exactly.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

So if I get a new computer in a few months it will no loner work. Maybe we can VPN into Sweden?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

I assume you know you can transfer files from one pc to a other?

[–] zecg 3 points 4 hours ago

Jeeez, just copy the ollama's directory (something like .ollama) from user's dir to wherever. You can check and find the files inside. I find the published 14b really useful, it's ten GB that think and reason in english.

[–] forrcaho 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Something about https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 , or at least that's the model that everyone's been talking about recently. It looks like it'd be half a terabyte to clone the entire repo though, and I don't know how to use it either ...

[–] zecg 1 points 4 hours ago

Run it using ollama in a terminal (like ollama run model_name), ask it a question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Doesn't matter. People in the US already have the model, so sharing it within the US wouldn't be illegal, and the law would only apply to anything "imported" 180 days after the law is passed (if it's passed at all).

Also, how "importing" is defined will matter for any future legal arguments, and I would imagine this law would eventually be struck down for being overbroad.