--- title: Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI... description: Mark Zuckerberg publicly opposed US efforts to ban Chinese AI models, calling such restrictions ineffective. In a Financial Times interview, he argued the US... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mark-zuckerberg-says-the-us-should-not-block-chinese-ai-models-k8kuikgzl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models | daily.dev og:description: Mark Zuckerberg publicly opposed US efforts to ban Chinese AI models, calling such restrictions ineffective. In a Financial Times interview, he argued the US... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mark-zuckerberg-says-the-us-should-not-block-chinese-ai-models-k8kuikgzl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K8kuIkGzl.png og:image:alt: Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mark Zuckerberg publicly opposed US efforts to ban Chinese AI models, calling such restrictions ineffective. In a Financial Times interview, he argued the US should identify and fix its competitive gaps rather than build barriers. He also implicitly criticized OpenAI and Anthropic for lobbying to restrict frontier models, framing openness as the natural direction of AI development. The comments come amid a live Washington debate over Chinese AI sanctions, with the industry split between Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia backing open weights, and OpenAI and Anthropic pushing for tighter controls on safety and national-security grounds. Critics noted tension in Zuckerberg's open-weights stance given Meta's newest flagship model, Muse Spark, launched closed source. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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