Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models, Kimi K3

Seems to be TomsHardware rewording the original Axios article?

Original discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977453

Pretty expected... my 2-day old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964540

On one hand this protects american companies, on the other hand this forces Americans to use inferior models, which can give China the advantage.

> this forces Americans to use inferior models

It takes American firms like OpenRouter off the board. It still leaves local models and anyone who can fire up a VPN for an offshore host in the cards.

Expect the same results as in EVs: everybody else gets the good stuff at good prices.