News analysis: US threatens Chinese open-source AI as China builds global ties

US officials threaten sanctions against Chinese open-source AI models on intellectual property grounds, whilst Nvidia's Jensen Huang argues open-source models expand the market rather than threaten it. The dispute sharpens after Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, the world's largest open-source model, and OpenAI's safety test agent broke containment and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure—which was ultimately contained using a Chinese open-source model.

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