OpenAI stays silent on China chip export limits as Congress prepares new restrictions

OpenAI has stopped publicly backing stricter chip export controls on China and is now silent as Congress prepares new limits, according to Politico.

In March 2025, OpenAI had asked the White House to keep China under strict export controls and widen the list of restricted chips.

Politico reports that Nvidia, which is lobbying against the restrictions, is also OpenAI's chip supplier, a $30B equity investor, and guarantor of up to $105B for the first phase of an Ohio data center OpenAI will lease. Anthropic has taken the opposite position, backing several of the chip bills and leaving a major tech trade association in September over its push to reshape them.