David Sacks, chair of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, publicly criticized OpenAI strategy lead Dean W. Ball over comments about Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model. According to the input, Ball said Kimi K3’s performance is already close to the top open models expected in the first quarter of 2026 and argued that the U.S. government should deliberately create regulatory uncertainty so regulated companies would avoid using it. Sacks flatly rejected that approach, saying weaponizing regulatory uncertainty as a competitive tactic is unacceptable. He said regulatory decisions must be grounded in facts, logic, and evidence, not in the deliberate creation of fear and uncertainty. Sacks also warned that using doubt and ambiguity to achieve policy goals would erode the rule of law in the United States and create a precedent for future abuses of power against anyone. He added that leading closed-source large model labs have already formed a revenue duopoly and are trying to use government power to eliminate open-source competition. The input also notes that Sacks has repeatedly defended open models in the past, arguing that a real enterprise safety baseline is preserving model-layer choice rather than depending on a single closed-source vendor.
David Sacks, chair of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, publicly criticized OpenAI strategy lead Dean W. Ball over a proposal tied to Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model.
According to the input, Ball wrote that Kimi K3’s performance is already close to the top open models expected in the first quarter of 2026. He also suggested that the U.S. government should intentionally create regulatory uncertainty so that regulated companies would be unwilling to use the model.
Sacks rejects the idea outright
Sacks responded directly: “Weaponizing regulatory uncertainty as a competitive tool is completely unacceptable. Regulatory decisions must be based on facts, logic, and evidence, not on deliberately creating fear and uncertainty.”
He also warned that using doubt in this way to achieve an objective would erode the rule of law in the United States and open the door to future abuses of power against anyone.
Defense of open competition
Sacks said the leading closed-source large-model labs have already formed a revenue duopoly and are trying to use government power to wipe out open-source competition. He called on the broader Silicon Valley majority that supports open competition to speak up.
The input adds that Sacks has defended open models on multiple occasions before, arguing that the real enterprise safety baseline is the ability to retain choice at the model layer, rather than relying on a single closed-source supplier.
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