The release of a powerful open-source AI model from China has once again split the tech industry into two camps: the evangelists who believe good tech should be accessible and the protectionist hawks who believe anything foreign is a threat. It must simply kill Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money and a guy who has never once been deterred by being both loud and wrong, to find himself on the opposite side of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, given how much he loves to tell people to smash the buy button on the chipmaker. But Cramer is a China hardliner, refusing to believe anything coming from the country could be anything but compromised. Huang, meanwhile, thinks access to good, cheap AI models is a net positive regardless of where they come from. In an interview with Axios, Huang said plainly that the Chinese models like the recently released Kimi K3 are “excellent” and that “open-source models that are excellent should be used.” That’s a pretty simple equation to follow: If model equals good, use the good model. He also dismissed the idea that good models from China are somehow a threat to American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. “There’s no scenario where China runs U.S. companies off the road,” he told the publication. “Zero possibility.”