Public Information for Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion
Regulation summary
With this interim final rule, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) revises the Export Administration Regulations’ (EAR) controls on advanced computing integrated circuits (ICs) and adds a new control on artificial intelligence (AI) model weights for certain advanced closed-weight dual-use AI models. In conjunction with the expansion of these controls, which BIS has determined are necessary to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, BIS is adding new license exceptions and updating the Data Center Validated End User authorization to facilitate the export, reexport, and transfer (in-country) of advanced computing (ICs) to end users in destinations that do not raise national security or foreign policy concerns. Together, these changes will cultivate secure ecosystems for the responsible diffusion and use of AI and advanced computing ICs.
The final rule can be found here. Although this rule is effective upon publication, exporters, reexporters, and transferors are not required to comply with the changes made in this rule until 120 days from date of publication, except that paragraphs 14, 15, and 18 of supplement no. 10 to part 748 have a delayed compliance date of 365 days from date of publication.
Please note, this document is being posted on bis.gov in advance of publication in the Federal Register. If there are any discrepancies between this document and the Interim Final Rule on Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion as published in the Federal Register, the document published in the Federal Register controls.
Public statements
BIS’s January 13, 2025 press release on the rule is available here.
Remarks by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo at the Inaugural convening of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes is available here.
Remarks by Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Thea D. Rozman Kendler at the WorldECR Forum are available here.
Watch January 15, 2025, public briefing from Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Trade, Julia Khersonsky, here.
Country Allocation Dashboard
Pursuant to § 742.6(b)(10) of the EAR, BIS is instituting specific country allocations of total processing performance (TPP). As a result, exports and reexports of advanced ICs will be counted against the following country allocations beginning on January 13, 2025.
The following table lists the country installed base allocations of TPP and TPP licensed to date:
Last updated on March 10, 2025