The Trump administration is reportedly weighing measures targeting Chinese AI models, from adding Chinese labs to sanctions lists to holding U.S. companies liable for security failures. Rather than impose an outright ban, Washington could use soft rules to deter adoption while protecting the market positions of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
Good luck expanding that to the rest of the world which is just discovering that, while not perfect, China’s open weights models are
a) good enough for 95% or all companies out there
b) a lot cheaper, also because they’re
c) self-hostable, meaning: they’ll always be available, unlike U.S. cloud AI which you’ll be cut off from whenever Diaper Donnie feels it’s time for yet another bribe.