Chinese AI: The New War Over Open-Weight Models and Sanctions

Chinese AI, open-weight models, and sanctions: Washington is no longer looking only at chips—it is now targeting the heart of artificial intelligence.

In this episode, we analyze why the United States could sanction Chinese open-weight models, the role model distillation plays, how DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, and other Chinese labs are competing, and why this dispute brings together intellectual property, national security, technological protectionism, and the future of open AI.

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📷 Images:

• “Software, Google NY office computer museum” — Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. (CC BY 2.0) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27599214
• “Programming a robot” — timatymusic (CC BY 2.0) — https://www.flickr.com/photos/27365671@N00/6724239143
• “Home office computer monitors, Seattle, Washington, USA” — Wonderlane (CC BY 2.0) — https://www.flickr.com/photos/71401718@N00/4183547126
• “Macintosh, Google NY office computer museum” — Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. (CC BY 2.0) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27599212
• “IMac, Google NY office computer museum” — Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A. (CC BY 2.0) — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27599216

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