Earlier this year, in January, former US President Biden unveiled stricter export controls on AI chips, a move that met with fierce opposition domestically, internationally, and within the industry itself. Now, there are reports that the Trump administration is contemplating a revision of these measures. The proposed change involves abandoning the existing tiered licensing system, which categorizes countries and regions into different tiers based on their access to advanced AI chips, in favor of a global licensing system facilitated by intergovernmental agreements. This shift by the Trump administration could be an attempt to ease international tensions, but its precise implications remain to be fully understood.
