Nvidia CEO Huang and Nearly 200 Tech Firms Urge White House to Halt Chinese AI Model Ban
Nearly 200 technology companies and Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang have urged the Trump administration not to ban Chinese open-source artificial intelligence models, warning that restrictions would stifle domestic innovation and damage the broader industry.
The pushback arrives as Commerce Department officials weigh whether to sanction Chinese AI labs over claims of intellectual property theft and model distillation. Huang told Axios that the market is misreading the impact of recent releases like China’s Kimi K3, noting that widespread adoption of high-performing open models ultimately drives greater demand for American AI chips.
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@selkis_2028RT @kimmonismus: The Trump administration is showing signs it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models Via Axios The Trump administration…
@hosseebThis is the wrong answer. But I fear the industrial logic points in this direction, as @deanwball pointed out last week. The fact pattern echoes EVs or solar panels; the US is afraid domestic investment will plummet if Chinese open source
@kimmonismusIf the United States were to effectively ban cutting-edge Chinese open-weight models, the move could easily backfire. On the one hand, such restrictions would signal that the perceived threat from China has grown so significant that policy
@erikvoorheesIf Biden did this, every Republican would be correctly protesting such tyranny on the basis of the First Amendment But since Trump is doing it and it's "China" they will not only bend over and take it but activity cheer it forward
@coindeskLATEST: The Trump administration is quietly weighing restrictions on Chinese open-source AI models following the rise of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, per Axios.
@selkis_2028RT @AndrewCurran_: This also means Chinese models are almost certainly going to be restricted in some way - possibly even banned - in the W…
@rohanpaul_aiAxios: Trump administration weighs restrictions while businesses move to lower-cost Chinese AI. Such a move would hand OpenAI and Anthropic near-total control of the market. American companies are turning more and more to Chinese open-wei
@garymarcusAmid all the competing concerns about AI, including geopolitical tensions, the risks of unemployment, cybercrime, and disinformation, and the complexities of open-source, to say nothing of the risk of runaway AI, it's pretty clear that the
@8teapiI will add another thing to what @deanwball wrote, in that just news report of the below is enough to make most US enterprises refrain from using Chinese models on the off chance they get banned later. Unless there is some overwhelming adva
@mtsliveSITUATION EXPLAINED: The Trump administration could move to restrict open-source Chinese AI models. • Kimi K3's release last week is reigniting a push the administration has tried before • Rather than an outright ban, sources describe Enti
@megatron_ronBREAKING: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The Trump administration is considering to ban Chinese open-source models within in the United States after the release of the Chinese AI Kimi K3, per Axios
@berber_jin1RT @SophiaCai99: There was a brief discussion about this recently, but the Commerce Department is *NOT* moving forward on banning Chinese m…
@garymarcusRT @SophiaCai99: There was a brief discussion about this recently, but the Commerce Department is *NOT* moving forward on banning Chinese m…
@mtsliveSITUATION UPDATE: The Commerce Department is not currently moving to ban Chinese models, per Politico's Sophia Cai.
@sarthakghRT @SophiaCai99: There was a brief discussion about this recently, but the Commerce Department is *NOT* moving forward on banning Chinese m…
@mtsliveSITUATION UPDATE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US will examine open source AI models made overseas, including Chinese ones, and act on evidence of IP theft. “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not
@techmemeUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (@ashleycapoot / CNBC) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
@edludlowTreasury Sec. Bessent on Fox: “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not support is IP theft. If we see, especially, that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them
@firstsquawkUSTR GREER: WE SEE CHINA DISTILLING AI MODELS AS A FORM OF IP THEFT
@financialjuiceUSTR Greer: We see China distilling AI models as a form of IP theft
@financialjuiceUSTR's Greer on AI, China: We are concerned that China is distilling our models - CNBC
@wallstengineUS TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT ON AI: CHINA MODELS NEED TO BE HELD TO SAME STANDARDS. YOU CAN'T USE COUNTERFEIT GOODS WE ARE CREATING COMPETITORS THE QUESTION IS, ARE CHINA MODELS USING STOLEN MATERIALS? GOING TO BE LOOKING AT CHINA MO
@financialjuiceUS Treasury Secretary Bessent: The question is, are China models using stolen materials?
@financialjuiceUS Treasury Secretary Bessent on AI: We are finding US 'watermarks' on Chinese models
@financialjuiceUS Treasury Secretary Bessent: We can sanction any open AI models if they do IP theft