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Efforts to ban Chinese AI models in Washington, D.C., are meeting strong resistance in Silicon Valley from entrepreneurs and investors who fear it hands more power to Anthropic and OpenAI.

Why it matters: AI costs are ballooning, and companies don't want to be reliant on just one or two vendors for such critical tech.