Anthropic · Claude · China · Donald Trump · New York · MIT Technology Review
Given that enthusiasm for these and other AI companies is driving an outsized share of economic growth
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They are “a threat for an administration that doesn’t want more economic bad news,” Anton Leicht, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, wrote on X.
Key facts
- Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies — They are “a threat for an administration that doesn’t want more economic bad news,” Anton Leicht, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, wrote on X
- This position has fueled the new White House review process that aims to vet AI models’ security before they’re released
- That drew a response from Michael, who, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has been the agency’s main liaison with AI companies
Summary
Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. 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. Kimi and other Chinese models like it pose a real problem for Trump. What is Trump to do? On this point, they’d see a sliver of agreement (and a sliver) with David Sacks, who on July 19 criticized top AI companies that “want the government to eliminate their open source competition.” He has also argued that Chinese AI models have become popular because they come with fewer restrictions on how people can use them (putting aside the built-in state censorship ).