March 16, 2025 – OpenAI has recently submitted a policy recommendation to the White House, labeling DeepSeek as “another Huawei,” and urging the U.S. government to impose a complete ban on China’s artificial intelligence. This proposal from OpenAI was not a spur-of-the-moment decision. In January of this year, former President Trump revoked the previous AI executive order titled “Development and Use of Safe, Reliable, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence,” and subsequently signed a new executive order declaring “it is the policy of the United States to maintain and enhance its leadership in the global AI domain.” The order also mandated the submission of an AI action plan within 180 days.
Similarly, Anthropic, another AI giant in the U.S., has strongly advised the government to tighten export controls in the AI sector. It is evident that both companies are targeting this initiative, aiming to exchange “technological influence” for “policy-making influence.”
OpenAI was once synonymous with open-source, with the full openness of GPT-2 being regarded as an industry benchmark. However, starting from GPT-3, the company chose to erect closed-source barriers and has been reaping substantial profits through its API subscription model.
