The United States is investigating whether Chinese open-source artificial intelligence models infringed U.S. intellectual property and warned it could impose sanctions on Chinese AI companies if violations are confirmed. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. supports open-source AI but not IP infringement. The remarks come amid concern in the United States about the performance and rapid global spread of Chinese models and debate over whether model distillation using competitors’ outputs constitutes IP theft.

Meta has unveiled a new AI image generation model, stepping into the generative AI image market. A comparison test using five identical prompts rated OpenAI\'s ChatGPT highest for overall prompt understanding and consistency. The test pitted Meta\'s model against ChatGPT and Google\'s image generator Nano Banana 2 across tasks such as product posters, wildlife images, Instagram promotions, four-panel comics and a noir-style scene. Meta stood out in creative styling, while Nano Banana 2 delivered stable realism.