Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warns that the US should not ban Chinese AI models, arguing it would not be effective and that US firms should focus on competing by identifying bottlenecks.
# Meta CEO Zuckerberg warns US shouldn’t ban Chinese AI models | CNN Business
Source: [https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/29/tech/zuckerberg-chinese-ai-models-intl](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/29/tech/zuckerberg-chinese-ai-models-intl)
The US government should not block Chinese artificial intelligence in an attempt to gain theupper hand in the race to develop the groundbreaking technology, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told the Financial Times\.
Zuckerberg warned that a US ban on Chinese AI models would not be “an effective solution” and suggested that US companies should instead “systematically” identify bottlenecks and roadblocks in order to better compete with Chinese AI firms\.
His comments in[an interview with the FT published Wednesday](https://www.ft.com/content/af4fa147-7fdd-42eb-8eb2-3f624a89a4e4?accessToken=zwAAAZ-tZJRHkdOvT6FHf91C69OOsj9iSomk5A.MEQCIE4NqAWSKElccbVPXfTyhEz-3i8y-KQmFsivodGrAIMxAiBg1J_aCIAOdr8mpT4KwWktUFBtKUAi-qlYJmu9wOMf7w&sharetype=gift&token=f78fb9f8-d2e6-4180-98b5-415c3dab1fcf&syn-25a6b1a6=1)come as an intense debate rages in Washington over how the US should regulate the fast\-developing technology and respond to increasingly sophisticated Chinese competition\.
Some senior Trump administration officials have claimed there is evidence that China’s Moonshot AI covertly used US rivals to train its latest model Kimi K3\. Moonshot has denied the allegations\.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent[warned last week](https://cnn.com/2026/07/23/tech/china-ai-moonshot-kimi-explainer-intl-hnk)that “sanctions” could be considered if Chinese labs “cross the line into IP theft\.”
It comes after the US government[announced on Tuesday](https://cnn.com/2026/07/29/tech/us-china-robot-ban-intl-hnk)it would ban new humanoid and quadruped robot imports from foreign manufacturers, warning that they pose “unacceptable risks” to US national security\.
The ban also includes power converters used to connect renewable energy infrastructure and batteries to the power grid\.
The new US restrictions, which exclude models already in use, are the latest attempt by Washington to bolster and safeguard its domestic industries and supply chain, amid an intensifying rivalry with China to dominate advanced technology and artificial intelligence\.
*CNN’s John Liu contributed reporting\.*
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