The Biden Administration released on Monday its Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion, streamlining licensing hurdles for large and small chip orders while providing clarity to allied and partner nations.
No restrictions apply to chip sales to 18 key allies and partners, according to a statement from The White House. Chip orders with collective computation power up to roughly 1,700 advanced GPUs neither require a license nor count against national chip caps.
The rule builds on previous regulations, including the October 2022 and October 2023 chip controls.
The move includes continuing to ensure that advanced semiconductors sold abroad are not used by "countries of concern" to train advanced AI systems and the transfer is restricted to "non-trusted actors" of the model weights for advanced closed-weight models.
Further, setting up security standards to protect the weights of advanced closed-weight AI models is also part of the action being taken by the US.
