Inside the White House debate over what to do about Chinese AI

The Trump administration is wrestling with how to respond to the possibility that leading Chinese tech firm Moonshot AI stole American intellectual property to create its latest artificial intelligence model.

The company’s Kimi K3 model – released last week – is nearly as powerful as the U.S.’s most advanced efforts but far less costly.

That creates a confounding dynamic inside the administration where President Donald Trump’s science and technology adviser and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are taking a hardline approach aimed at protecting American IP, while Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has a more modest approach, concerned with companies’ access to cheaper, effective technology.

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