If U.S bans Kimi, it will actually benefit Kimi:
1. They aren't making much money in the U.S and banning it has no impact on its business.
2. U.S sanctions prove Kimi is a frontier AI leader worldwide, which makes China proud and will help boost their upcoming IPO in China.
3. They will continue to distill Anthropic, use B300s, and launch better models.
Instead, it's a sanction against every American consumer and enterprise.
- It increases their AI OpEx spend,
- slow down their agentic adoptions, and
- fails to protect their data and AI sovereignty.
This is the least MAGA policy ever.