Nvidia, OpenAI, and 179 startups line up against a US ban on Chinese open models
Nvidia's Jensen Huang published an open letter defending open-weight models, with Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and 179 startups signing on to preserve access. Anthropic's Dario Amodei warns of military and biological misuse, while Trump adviser Michael Kratsios accuses Moonshot of distilling Fable 5 and acquiring banned Nvidia chips. The fight is commercial, not ideological: Moonshot's Kimi K3 ranks fourth on Artificial Analysis' intelligence index behind only Opus 5, Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol, so a crackdown prices US developers out of the cheapest capable models available.
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Moonshot's open-weight model, Kimi K3, now ranks fourth on Artificial Analysis' intelligence index, behind only Anthropic's Opus 5 and Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol.
Why this matters
- → US developers can't afford closed models; Chinese open alternatives undercut prices by orders of magnitude.
- → Geopolitical split: Silicon Valley vs. Washington on whether banning Chinese AI helps or hurts American compet
- → Security risks (backdoors, cyberattacks) are real but solvable without blanket bans — the policy choice matter