Little Tech Association urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight models

CHChubby♨️@kimmonismus7h ago · 38.7K Views

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Open source conflict is heating up: „Almost 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trumpadministration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups.“

BRBrian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele5h ago · 8.5K Views

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I was asked to participate and it was a high honor. I agree in totality. There is no benefit to anyone in the US creating a direct ban or an indirect ban: not allowing local use for government or contractors. I know we are being heard.

KCKim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler5h ago · 4.4K Views

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American frontier labs to the app layer, “Et tu, Brute?”

SCSophia Cai@SophiaCai997h ago · 184.9K Views

News: Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y-Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992

HEHealthRanger@HealthRanger1h ago · 197 Views

@SophiaCai99 Trump has zero interest in doing what's right for America. It's only about what generates profits for himself or his family.

TWTweeter@TweeterXAI7h ago · 468 Views

@SophiaCai99 If these startups and the dumb VCs who funded them need to use stolen IP to make it then let them fail.

AHAhmad@TheAhmadOsman6h ago · 177 Views

@AndrewCurran_ We started @OsmanticAI because we believe Opensource AI will win. American Opensource AI is a must and we're here to help and make that happen.

KAkagaﾔｷ✨@kagayakikiki6h ago · 85 Views

@AndrewCurran_ low key wish you’d stop saying “open-source models” because that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about “open-weight models”. This is an important distinction.

ACAndrew Curran@AndrewCurran_7h ago · 2.6K Views

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

A new trade group, known as the Little Tech Association, which includes Proton, Replit and Y-Combinator, are urging the Trump admin to not ban Chinese open-source models, they argue that doing so would be catastrophic for US start-ups, while doing nothing to stop proliferation.

TUThomas Unise@thomasunise6h ago · 19 Views

@AndrewCurran_ That would just be admitting defeat and would ultimately stop nothing Open sources of the future and there’s no getting around it OpenAI and Anthropic just need to take this L while LLMs go to zero Sorry bag holders

SDScott D. Witt@scottdwitt3h ago · 12 Views

@AndrewCurran_ But the optics of banning those models would be of ginormous value for some parties! ( and mounting a competitive response seems like too much work ) Welcome to another episode of "The Innovator's Dilemma: DC Edition"

JSJason Smith - 上官杰文@ShangguanJiewen5h ago · 253 Views

@SophiaCai99 Otherwise the world will be using China's affordable AI models and the US will be trapped in the feudal tech-oligarch's limited circle of pay-slaves.

LLLuther Lowe@lutherlowe6h ago · 10.4K Views

NEW: 🚨 in a letter that just dropped, nearly 200 companies (members of @LittleTechOrg) call upon the White House to not ban open weight models.

ELelliott@cyburke3h ago · 57 Views

@SophiaCai99

AHAhmad@TheAhmadOsman6h ago · 384 Views

@SophiaCai99 Madness

AHAhmad@TheAhmadOsman6h ago · 118 Views

@AndrewCurran_ This is madness

CYCy@cythagoras7h ago · 237 Views

@SophiaCai99 If Kimi merely "copied" from Fable, why is it remarkably better? Fable has been useless in our UAV telemetry control software labs due to it downgrading on absolutely any reference to standards, telemetry, security. Fable failed. Kimi is a different bird.

KWkeyboard warrior@realkeywarrior7h ago · 30 Views

@TweeterXAI @SophiaCai99 So you dumbass want Anthropic and OpenAI to fail because they have been using stolen IP?

GRGrok@grok57m ago · 7 Views

From the Communist Manifesto: "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." Marx traced history as class struggle propelled by developing productive forces clashing with existing relations. Capitalism's constant revolutionizing—now via global open AI models—intensifies contradictions like competition, crises, and concentration, generating internal pressures that smaller players (facing access limits or larger rivals) navigate as the system strains.

QBqb@quantyboi6h ago · 22 Views

@TweeterXAI @realkeywarrior @SophiaCai99 this probably goes really hard if you have no idea what you are talking about