Mark Zuckerberg takes a stand in the global race for artificial intelligence and urges Washington not to close the doors to models developed in China. In an interview with the Financial Times, the founder and CEO of Meta argued that banning access to Chinese AI systems would not be an effective strategy to maintain American technological leadership and warned of the risk that excessive regulation could end up strengthening the dominance of large U.S. labs, limiting domestic competition.
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The statements come at a time of high tension between the United States and China on the artificial intelligence front. In Washington, there is a heated debate on how to regulate a technology now considered crucial for national security and economic competitiveness, while the Trump administration is considering new measures against Chinese companies in the sector.
At the center of discussions is Moonshot AI, a Beijing startup that recently presented the Kimi K3 model, considered by several observers capable of competing with systems developed by OpenAI and Anthropic. According to senior U.S. officials, Moonshot trained its model using so-called “distillation,” a technique that allows transferring the capabilities of an existing model to a new one and which, according to Washington, was used in violation of the intellectual property of U.S. companies. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that sanctions against Chinese labs remain an option if cases of intellectual property theft are confirmed.
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Zuckerberg, however, believes that the American response should not be to ban Chinese models. According to the Meta CEO, the United States should instead focus on identifying the “bottlenecks” that slow national innovation, strengthening the ability of its companies to compete with Beijing in a sector destined to determine the economic and geopolitical balances of the coming years.
The intervention of the Meta founder also reflects the different strategy pursued by his company compared to major competitors. Zuckerberg reiterated his belief that artificial intelligence should be as accessible as possible and promoted the “open” development model, arguing that users should be able to customize and run systems directly on their own hardware. An approach that contrasts with that of OpenAI and Anthropic, based on proprietary and closed models, and which according to Zuckerberg reduces the risk that technological power concentrates in the hands of a few large operators.
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