Trump administration revives push to ban Chinese open-weight AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek
The Trump administration is reportedly reviving efforts to ban Chinese open-weight AI models, including Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, citing cybersecurity concerns. According to an Axios report, previous measures—such as adding Chinese AI labs to the Entity List, issuing NSA/ONCD advisories, and drafting executive orders holding U.S. companies liable for security breaches—were paused due to internal pushback but have been revived after new model releases. Critics, including former White House adviser Sriram Krishnan and AI adviser David Sacks, argue the ban would stifle innovation and hand a monopoly to U.S. labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. Enforcement faces major hurdles because open-weight models are downloadable from public repositories and can be run offline in air-gapped data centers. U.S. companies increasingly adopt these models for cost savings—DeepSeek-V4-Pro charges $0.87 per million output tokens versus $50 for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5—and data privacy benefits. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed using Chinese models in production, cutting AI spending nearly in half.
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