Beijing adds 3 more registered generative AI services, now totaling 215

This is a small, routine filing notice on its face, but it’s part of a steady drumbeat: Beijing is normalizing a regime where powerful generative models are only legitimate once they are registered, traceable and visibly labeled in downstream apps. Crossing the 200‑service mark matters symbolically because it shows that, despite early fears, most commercial providers have chosen to comply rather than exit or operate underground. For the domestic Chinese AI race, that reduces regulatory uncertainty and gives local players a clearer playbook for launching new models and features.

In the global AGI race, Beijing’s registry is a contrasting model to the largely self‑attested transparency regimes emerging in the US and EU. If the filing requirement becomes a de‑facto whitelist for cloud APIs and app stores in China, it could give regulators fine‑grained leverage over which models can scale and where they can be embedded. That may slow some edge experimentation, but it also creates a structured permissioned environment for deploying very capable systems into finance, media and government workflows.