Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has entered the intensifying Washington debate over whether Chinese AI models should be restricted in the US, wanting that banning them would not be ‘an effective solution’. In an interview with Financial Times, Zuckerberg said the US should compete by identifying bottlenecks and roadblocks rather than blocking rivals outright.

The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing…

The best response to capable Chinese open models is not to make US developers less capable. It is to build better and safer US models.