Jensen Huang urged Washington to stop worrying about China’s open-source AI, stating in an interview with Axios Tuesday that the U.S. should not ban these models, which are being developed by Chinese companies like DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI—which last week raised alarms when it released its highly capable model, Kimi K3. The White House has reportedly considered restricting their use partly based on fears that the models could be used for surveillance purposes by China or threaten homegrown AI companies, and reportedly considered using executive power to impose conditions on U.S. companies using Chinese AI models, including forcing them to guarantee security and accept liability if breached. Huang rejected the claim that these models could serve as a backdoor for China’s government as a “misconception,” emphasizing they are downloadable with customizable guardrails, and argued the world needs both open-source and closed models. “These Chinese models are excellent,” he said. “Open-source models that are excellent should be used.” Huang’s comments come after the release of Moonshot’s Kimi K3 on July 16, the company’s most advanced open-source model.