AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes America has nothing to fear from China's open-source AI models — and everything to fear from the growing campaign to ban them. - "These Chinese models are excellent," Huang told Axios' Mike Allen on Tuesday in an exclusive interview for our "Behind the Curtain" video series. "Open-source models that are excellent should be used." Why it matters: The world's top AI chipmaker says American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese models — a direct challenge to Trump officials and the U.S. labs lobbying Washington to shut them out. Among them are Nvidia's own customers, OpenAI and Anthropic , which have accused Chinese rivals of siphoning capabilities from their models and warned that…