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Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and former Assistant Secretary of State under the Trump administration, argues in this Bloomberg Tech interview that the industry is asking the wrong question about AI openness. The real debate, she contends, is not open-weight versus closed models — it’s about the specific risk of Chinese open-weight models, which have become the most accessible and cost-effective option for startups and businesses building their AI stacks.
Giuda points to the launch of Kimi 3 (Moonshot) as the immediate catalyst for the coordinated industry letter signed by Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella, noting the model has achieved near-parity with U.S. frontier systems at lower price points. She draws a direct line to existing policy precedents — Huawei bans, TikTok restructuring, legislation targeting Chinese-connected vehicles — arguing it makes no strategic sense to entrench Chinese technology into the foundational AI infrastructure of American companies after a decade of supply-chain decoupling.
Her policy prescription is proactive rather than restrictive: rather than banning open-weight models, the U.S. should rapidly build a trusted, price-competitive American open-weight ecosystem, align allies, and go on offense to diffuse American AI globally. She suggests the President’s PCAST advisory board convene urgently to develop that strategy. The interview provides a foreign-policy and national-security lens largely absent from the Silicon Valley framing of the same debate.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Tech · Published July 24, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
