Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models, Kimi K3
tomshardware.com
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Seems to be TomsHardware rewording the original Axios article?
Original discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977453
Pretty expected... my 2-day old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964540
On one hand this protects american companies, on the other hand this forces Americans to use inferior models, which can give China the advantage.
> this forces Americans to use inferior models
It takes American firms like OpenRouter off the board. It still leaves local models and anyone who can fire up a VPN for an offshore host in the cards.
Expect the same results as in EVs: everybody else gets the good stuff at good prices.