Bessent says U.S. could sanction China over AI model 'theft'

We must NOT let our companies use these Chinese models to save a few bucks. OpenAI and Anthropic are correct. This is vital national security. Please read Bing West's just released Cat 5. I respect the Chinese people greatly but these companies are run by the PLA for heaven's…

— Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) July 21, 2026

theres a reason none of the western companies have good open-weight models. all the good ones are chinese because the CCP subsidizes them

cheap intelligence requires cheap hardware and thats not gonna happen with the supply constraints atm

— Hosea (@hoseakidane_) July 20, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic execs sounded the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly from China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks if no regulation. WSJ

Translation: our $2 TN in contingent payments will not get paid

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 21, 2026

it's hard to quantify how much distillation improves the performance of Chinese models

we can't really put a number like 20% on it, but we can compare Chinese labs with other companies that don't distill for legal reasons

Google for example has 10-100x more compute than Chinese… https://t.co/6TjCUfLYHi

— Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) July 21, 2026