China Open Source Daily — 2026-10-24
On the evening of 2026-10-22, Yuyuantantian — the new-media arm of CCTV — reported that DeepSeek and MiniMax had both 顺利履行登记手续, successfully discharged the pre-export registration formalities, and completed 开源和海外授权使用, open sourcing and overseas licensing. Seven days earlier, Announcement No. 48’s exemption for technology ‘already in the public domain by means of open sourcing’ had been a clause on paper; as of that evening it is a clause with two named firms’ registration records behind it and a documented outcome. The next morning, 2026-10-23, MiniMax released the weights of M3.1 Flash — 428B total parameters, 23B active — on Hugging Face and ModelScope, and its Hong Kong shares rose more than 16 percent while Zhipu gained over 8. Read together with the two documents from the same fortnight — a 32-plus-16-member agent open-source community being recruited by CAICT for a third intake closing 2026-11-06, and the NPC Standing Committee’s 2026-11-02 agenda item on approving the agreement establishing the World AI Cooperation Organization — three events in three days describe a single institutional arrangement: the permission step has moved off the licence and onto the release form, and the state has begun to operate it as a channel rather than as a gate.