Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Partners With AI Firm Using Chinese Models
· Business · Indian Express, Reuters, Economic Times
World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by Donald Trump, has entered a collaboration with the Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw. The platform allows users to access a suite of artificial intelligence models and accepts World Liberty's crypto tokens as payment. A review of the platform revealed that nearly half of its 90 available models were developed by Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, which the U.S. administration has previously flagged for national security and intellectual property concerns. While the collaboration is not illegal, critics argue that the arrangement contradicts the Trump administration's stated stance against Chinese technology firms. The specific financial terms of the partnership and the revenue generated by the Trump family remain undisclosed.
Why it matters
The partnership creates a potential conflict between the Trump family's financial interests in crypto ventures and the administration's aggressive policy of restricting Chinese technology access in the U.S.
Read the original report — Indian Express
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