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Two hundred startups warn a ban on Chinese models would kill them

development2026-07-23

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Nearly 200 startups, now the Little Tech Association, begged Washington not to cut off Kimi and Qwen lest hundreds of companies instantly die, while Jensen Huang called the Chinese models excellent, argued free AI is great for hardware, and urged Anthropic to unshackle Mythos.

Reported metric: ~200 startups

Reporting date: 2026-07-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Two hundred startups warn a ban on Chinese models would kill them
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Reporting date: 2026-07-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-23-two-hundred-startups-beg-washington-not-to-cut-off-open-models
Claim: Nearly 200 startups, now the Little Tech Association, begged Washington not to cut off Kimi and Qwen lest hundreds of companies instantly die, while Jensen Huang called the Chinese models excellent, argued free AI is great for hardware, and urged Anthropic to unshackle Mythos.
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- Welcome to July 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-23-2026
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