World Liberty partnership raises questions over Chinese AI access

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World Liberty partnership raises questions

Highlights

WorldClaw offers dozens of Chinese AI models.
USD1 can be used to pay for access.
Some model developers face U.S. restrictions.

A Reuters review found that 43 of the 90 AI models available through WorldClaw were developed by Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Baidu, and Z.ai, while the platform also offers models from U.S. firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic. WorldClaw accepts World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin as payment, creating a direct commercial link between the platform and the Trump-backed crypto venture.

Chinese AI meets Trump family crypto

Some of the Chinese developers available through WorldClaw face U.S. restrictions. Alibaba and Baidu have been designated by the Pentagon as military-aligned companies, while Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, is on the Commerce Department entity list, which sharply limits access to U.S. technology. Models from DeepSeek and Moonshot are also available on the platform.

There is no indication that World Liberty or WorldClaw is violating U.S. law. Chinese AI models remain widely available internationally and are increasingly used because they are often cheaper than comparable Western products.

The financial connection is more complicated. The Trump family owns 38% of World Liberty and earns money from the sale and use of its crypto products. WorldClaw accepts USD1, which is backed by assets including U.S. Treasury securities, and World Liberty earns revenue connected to those reserves.

Security and ethics questions grow

The relationship also brings data-security concerns. WorldClaw says its platform may share user inputs with the companies supplying the underlying models, raising questions over how information is handled when users interact with Chinese-developed systems.

WorldClaw says its WorldRouter product has more than 10,000 users and processes more than 50 million requested tasks a day. The company is also developing AI agents capable of handling personal tasks such as ordering food or summarizing emails.

The broader issue is not whether the partnership is legal, but whether it creates a conflict between U.S. policy and private business incentives. The administration has repeatedly raised concerns about Chinese AI, military links, and intellectual-property risks, while a company tied financially to the president’s family is benefiting from a platform that distributes some of those same technologies.

That tension could grow as Washington continues refining its China technology policy and as World Liberty expands its commercial reach.

Earlier, we reported that World Liberty received $100M from a businessman suspected of money laundering.

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