China's draft proposal restricts exports of AI models exceeding 2 trillion parameters—such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8-Max—or models ranking in the top 10 globally.

Large language models (LLMs) are advanced AI systems trained on massive text datasets to understand, generate, and reason about human language, powering applications such as chatbots, code generation, summarization, and scientific discovery.