Trump’s proposed ban on Kimi and other Chinese AI models could strengthen Beijing’s hand

The Trump administration has had plenty of targets in its sights in recent months. The newest are China’s cutting-edge AI models. Following the release of Kimi K3, the latest model from Moonshot AI, the White House is reportedly considering options that could effectively ban models like it, along with Alibaba’s Qwen model, the latest version of which was released just days after K3. It remains unclear what form such a ban would take, according to Axios. The U.S. Commerce Department has…