NVIDIA CorporationHuang urges Washington to drop fears and not ban Chinese AI models, which would protect Nvidia's ability to sell chips to China.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the U.S. should embrace rather than ban Chinese AI models, calling them 'excellent' and dismissing fears that open-source technology from China poses a security threat. In an interview with Axios, Huang argued that open models broaden AI adoption and that many customers will still pay for superior closed models, while also rejecting the idea that downloaded Chinese models create a 'backdoor' to Beijing. He urged policymakers not to let 'science fiction' fears about AI shape regulation, warning that discouraging AI adoption is the bigger risk, and said Wall Street has 'misunderstood the impact of Kimi again this time' after previously misreading DeepSeek. Huang's comments come as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration will investigate alleged intellectual property theft by Chinese AI models, and amid reports of a planned ban on Chinese open-source AI models following Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3, which outperformed several top U.S. models on certain benchmarks.
NVIDIA CorporationHuang urges Washington to drop fears and not ban Chinese AI models, which would protect Nvidia's ability to sell chips to China.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 outperformed top US models on benchmarks, showing strong technical capability.