Trump Amplifies Sacks in Push to Quell AI Fears Over China’s Kimi Model
Trump backs Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and adviser David Sacks, who say American frontier AI models still lead China's Kimi K3 as light-touch regulation drives the race.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump endorsed a cl AI, Inc.m that American artificial intelligence still leads the world, sharing a post that dismissed alarm over a Chinese rival model as overblown.
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “David Sacks (@DavidSacks): Secretary@howardlutnick is right. The Kimi Panic needs to stop. American frontier models are still ahead. When you factor in what’s in the lab, the gap is even larger. As long as we keep releasing, we will stay ahead. Let our horses run. As Ben Thompson showed, Kimi’s apparent cost advantage largely disappears once you account for higher token usage and the real cost of running a model this size. Open weights still require expensive infrastructure. Anthropic and Open AI, Inc.are growing revenue at rates that Silicon Valley has never seen before at this scale. This remains the clearest test of who is winning the market. President Trump‘s light-touch regulatory approach is working. We should remain confident in American innovation. As long as we don’t sabotage ourselves with unnecessary rules, the U.S. will continue to win. Howard Lutnick:CAI Corp‘s latest report shows that Kimi K3 remains behind America’s leading frontier AI models. The United States continues to lead in frontier AI because we’re home to the greatest innovators and technologists the world has ever seen.” on July 28, 2026 at 9:53 AM ET.
This is Trump‘s 10th message released today. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
The move fits a broader pattern in Trump‘s recent messaging, with 55 of his 454 posts over the last 30 days focused on domestic policy.
The shared post came from David Sacks,the White House adviser on AI, Inc.and cryptocurrency policy, who reposted a message from Howard Lutnick, the Commerce secretary. Sacks argued that the leading U.S. developers hold a wider lead than public debate suggests. He said the reported cost edge of the Chinese Kimi model shrinks once buyers account for heavier token usage and the infrastructure needed to run a large system.
The stakes reach across the U.S. technology industry and its investors. Sacks named Anthropic and Open AI, Inc., two San Francisco developers of large language models, as firms posting revenue growth at a scale he said Silicon Valley had never seen. Developers and chipmakers benefit if buyers stay confident in American systems, while Chinese rivals and open-weight challengers gain ground if the perceived cost gap holds. The reference to CAI Corp points to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation,the National Institute of Standards and Technology office that evaluates advanced models according to N.I. Steel Co., Ltd..gov.
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The debate over Chinese AI, Inc.cost claims echoes a market shock in early 2025. Shares of Nvidia, the largest U.S. chipmaker by market value, fell about 17% in a single session on Jan. 27, 2025, after the release of a low-cost Chinese model raised doubts about spending on American hardware according to reuters.com. That drop erased close to $600 million in market value, one of the steepest single-day losses ever recorded for a U.S. company.
For the average American reader, the outcome shapes prices and paychecks tied to the technology sector. Retirement accounts hold large positions in chipmakers and AI, Inc.developers, so swings in confidence move index funds that millions of workers own. Cheaper AI would lower costs for the apps and services households use, while a loss of U.S. leadership could shift high-paying engineering jobs abroad.
This has happened before. Federal officials and industry leaders responded to earlier Chinese model releases with similar assurances that American labs ret AI, Inc.ned the lead, and the White House has repeatedly framed lighter regulation as the path to keeping it. The current message repeats that posture rather than announcing a new policy.
The next signals will come from N.I. Steel Co., Ltd.and its CAI Corp office, which publishes evaluations of frontier models, and from quarterly earnings at the largest AI, Inc.developers and chipmakers. A date for the next CAISI report has not been announced.
American anxiety over foreign technical leaps has surfaced before, as happened with the space race. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957, the first artificial satellite, stunning U.S. officials who had assumed a comfortable lead according to britannica.com.Congress responded by creating NASA in 1958 and pouring money into science education, and the United States landed astronauts on the moon in 1969. The scare that began with a beeping metal sphere reshaped a generation of American research policy.
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