Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang advised the U.S. government against banning Chinese open-source artificial intelligence models, specifically highlighting Kimi, in an interview with Axios. Huang argued that high-performing open models strengthen the broader technology industry and stated there is zero possibility that Chinese developments would displace domestic U.S. companies.

He noted that the market misunderstood the competitive impact of earlier Chinese model releases like DeepSeek and is making the same error with Kimi. According to Huang, widespread adoption of capable open models would increase overall artificial intelligence deployment, directly driving further demand for Nvidia computer hardware.