Claim LD12-HQ-C12 (v1.0)

China's CAC reported 1,112 generative-AI services filed and 731 applications/functions registered by 31 August 2026, up from 988 and 598 at the end of June.

Research opportunities this claim motivates

What this claim leaves open for research. Each is a hypothesis about a gap, not a finding.

China's AI filing register: how often are filings sent back, and whose models do apps use?Filing and registration counts rose from 988 and 598 to 1,112 and 731 between June and August 2026, but the claim explicitly says nothing about rejection rates, adoption or market share.

Provenance and status

Claim type: FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Capability, quality, adoption, safety, market share or rejection rate
Source (field 6, as printed): CAC filing notices including Jul–Aug 2026 notice
Source type (field 7): GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (as printed: “Government administrative primary”)
Institutional position: Chinese regulator
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Current version v1.0, resolved through the explicit current pointer CLAIM--LD12-HQ-C12.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“CAC filing notices including Jul–Aug 2026 notice” → SRC-LD12-CAC-GENAI-FILING-NOTICES--v1.0 — CAC generative-AI filing notices; class GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)

All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD12-HQ-C12	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	China's CAC reported 1,112 generative-AI services filed and 731 applications/functions registered by 31 August 2026, up from 988 and 598 at the end of June.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	D/A — Developmental steering / implementation	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	CAC filing notices including Jul–Aug 2026 notice	source_ids: SRC-LD12-CAC-GENAI-FILING-NOTICES
7	SOURCE TYPE	Government administrative primary	classes: GOVERNMENT_PRIMARY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Chinese regulator	—
9	SCOPE	Mainland China; Interim Measures implementation	—
10	DESIGN	Administrative record	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	National filings and local registrations	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Various models	—
13	COMPARATOR	Prior bimonthly counts	—
14	MAIN RESULT	+124 filed services and +133 registrations in Jul–Aug; cumulative 1,112 / 731.	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Operational administrative gate / supply organization	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Capability, quality, adoption, safety, market share or rejection rate	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Filing and registration are administrative states, not conventional product-quality approvals	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Prior CAC notices show consistent cumulative series	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	China / Chinese	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Favors providers/apps able to enter the administrative system; SME effect unmeasured	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D1, D6, D7, L-B	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Rejection/rectification data or rule change	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE	state: ELIGIBLE
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D1 (DOMAIN); D6 (DOMAIN); D7 (DOMAIN); L-B (LENS)

Cited by Living Debate versions

LD-12 v0.1

Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 2e09eecf7a641d83f720660f72748999ff18509f7596b357becaff4ea21de2af.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R08 — LD-12 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1h0qq9KV5f8e8nb3PTHj_dGv77l-syEBs; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified 2026-09-29T04:45:28Z; block “ENTRY 12 — LD12-HQ-C12 ” SHA-256 466375c75b960d6ea3fe8c5a5077529b78f8e0c6cf2bc6fc114a4ed9e2adfcab; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r08-ld12-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R08 — LD-12 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5 logical_id/version convention.
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R08 — LD-12 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD12-CAC-GENAI-FILING-NOTICES--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 12 — LD12-HQ-C12 cites "CAC filing notices including Jul–Aug 2026 notice"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block (fixtures/frozen/r08-ld12-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical); Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #51 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-next-20261010T163158Z-02 S12): Batch 03 §1 and §2; ledger C12 and C13 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD12-CAC-GENAI-FILING-NOTICES--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "CAC generative-AI filing notices"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #51 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-next-20261010T163158Z-02 S12): Batch 03 §1 and §2; ledger C12 and C13 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE.