Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
On Wednesday, the Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration.
President Donald Trump with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as he speaks at a press conference during the G7 Leaders' Summit.Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesAlmost 200 companies are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight AI models.The companies say cutting off access risks crippling the next generation of U.
S. startups.The newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to the administration with its appeal on Wednesday.
Almost 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups.
On Wednesday, the newly-formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others in the administration with its appeal, marking the first coordinated effort by Silicon Valley's wider influential startup community to weigh in on one of the Trump administration's most closely watched AI debates. At issue: whether Washington should restrict access to increasingly powerful open-weight — meaning, AI models whose weights are publicly available — AI models released by Chinese companies such as Moonshot AI and Alibaba."American leadership requires two things: world-leading American open-weight models and continued access for U.
S. builders to open models already available worldwide," the startup founders wrote in the letter obtained by POLITICO, also sent to Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios. Instead of broad prohibitions, they argue the government should adopt targeted safeguards.
And they warn that banning Americans from downloading Chinese open-weight models wouldn't stop their proliferation — but would weaken U.S. startups."
There'll be hundreds of companies that instantly die," said Suhail Doshi, founder of AI infrastructure st
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