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CHINA IS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS TRAVEL FOR TOP AI PROFESSIONALS IN PRIVATE FIRMS SUCH AS ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING AND DEEPSEEK
Critics note DeepSeek already publishes its AI models openly.
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CHINA IS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS TRAVEL FOR TOP AI PROFESSIONALS IN PRIVATE FIRMS SUCH AS ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING AND DEEPSEEK
Many users criticized China's travel restrictions on top AI talent at private firms like Alibaba as authoritarian or USSR-like, while others supported the policy to prevent brain drain and compete seriously in the AI race.
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China begins restricting travel for top AI talent at key orgs (was previously rumored for deepseek only).
Bloomberg: China is now treating its strongest private-sector AI researchers as strategic assets, with top Alibaba and DeepSeek staff reportedly needing state approval before overseas travel.
The policy pulls company engineers closer to state security rules, treating some employees as holders of sensitive national technology.
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bloomberg .com/news/articles/2026-05-26/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms
This is quite dumb given how much they share openly (DeepSeek at least), but what's interesing: do Americans simply not care? Are American algorithmic secrets kept secure by the sheer value of OpenAI equity?
CHINA IS RESTRICTING OVERSEAS TRAVEL FOR TOP AI PROFESSIONALS IN PRIVATE FIRMS SUCH AS ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING AND DEEPSEEK

@jsensarma Read the story of the dude who smuggled the textile knowledge to America from UK. Similar things will happen

@jsensarma also amrika was the primary IP theft and patent breaker of euro inventions in its growth phase. I think legal support was also enacted to permit this smoothly

@jsensarma Also:
This is not so wise...
China begins restricting travel for top AI talent at key orgs (was previously rumored for deepseek only).

@Samhanknr Yeah he's famous.

@jsensarma exhibit - A saar

@jsensarma The Americans still stole it. Especially the steam engine tech and became world leaders. Wonder who is going to be the next America.
(I mean, America **can** be the next America, but remains to be seen)

@AndFragment We need a AI espionage Dhurrandhar !!!!!

@asxyzp US has export control rules. It has very explicitly tried to slow down China.
There's nothing you can conclude from this either way. Being a super-power is not reducible to one factor.
I unfortunately only expect more like this. AI is going to pressure so many power structures in the world. We're still early.
China begins restricting travel for top AI talent at key orgs (was previously rumored for deepseek only).

@jsensarma Eventually, England lost its industrial competitiveness to the US & became a second rate industrial power & US, which is still the leading AI powerhouse has no such restrictions or travel ban on its AI engineers.
What can you conclude from this?

@jsensarma @kushanmitra Whereas Indian government actively lobbies with foreign governments for high skill work visas 🤦🏻♂️ on top of that imports highly expensive western wares to enable it.

@jsensarma Wait till you learn about how China protected it's Silk industry, and how worms were smuggled out by Byzantinan monks
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/china-expands-travel-curbs-to-top-ai-talent-at-private-firms
China begins restricting travel for top AI talent at key orgs (was previously rumored for deepseek only).

@jsensarma 更像是害怕这些工程师被美国暗杀或者逮捕,最近有个中国工程师在欧洲被美国逮捕了.
@teortaxesTex they're kept secure by a top class "corporate security" team (Corporate NSA)
This is quite dumb given how much they share openly (DeepSeek at least), but what's interesing: do Americans simply not care? Are American algorithmic secrets kept secure by the sheer value of OpenAI equity?

@jsensarma Except china has no technology advantage other than copying others and making their elementary-school educated leaders think they did it themselves. It’s just very stupid