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Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. (www.hawley.senate.gov)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Grimy to c/technology
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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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[–] 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.