China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself

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Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies.

David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until March, branded Anthropic’s models as “lobotomized” and “woke.” Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI’s new head of strategic futures a “supreme village idiot.” It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open source model that Chinese AI company Moonshot launched last week.

It appears to rival the intelligence of models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which are very much not free. Kimi and other Chinese models like it pose a real problem for Trump.

And they’re dividing the top AI strategists in his orbit into factions. Every time a new smart, free model from China like Kimi gets released, US companies see less reason to fork out money to access models from Anthropic or OpenAI.

Given that enthusiasm for these and other AI companies is driving an outsized share of economic growth, China’s AI models create both ec

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