Jensen Huang is urging Washington to stop worrying about China’s open-source AI just as an all-out panic has broken out over the highly capable, low-cost models that can increasingly compete with the most advanced products by OpenAI and Anthropic.
The Nvidia CEO said in an interview with Axios Tuesday the U.S. should not ban these kinds of models, which are being developed by Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI—which last week raised alarms when it released its highly capable model, Kimi K3.
While U.S. companies, including AI coding startup Cursor, are increasingly turning to open-source alternatives from China to save on the high costs associated with American AI models, the White House has reportedly considered restricting their use partly based on fears that the models could be used for surveillance purposes by China or that they could threaten the viability of homegrown AI companies.
The White House reportedly considered using executive power to impose conditions on U.S. companies looking to use Chinese AI models, including forcing these companies to guarantee security and accept liability if breached, Axios reported.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
