Trump-Backed World Liberty Links Up With Platform Offering Chinese AI Models

World Liberty Financial is expanding deeper into AI — and the move is drawing scrutiny over its connections to Chinese technology.
The Trump-backed crypto venture is collaborating with WorldClaw, a Hong Kong-based AI platform offering access to roughly 90 artificial intelligence models.
A Reuters review found that 43 of those models come from Chinese companies including Alibaba, Baidu, Z.ai, DeepSeek and Moonshot.
Several of those companies have been flagged by U.S. authorities over national security, military or intellectual-property concerns.
At the same time, WorldClaw accepts World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin as payment, creating a direct commercial link between the AI platform and the Trump family-backed crypto ecosystem.
The Trump family currently owns about 38% of World Liberty Financial.
The connections go further: World Liberty executive Ryan Fang also serves as an adviser to WorldClaw.
The arrangement is legal, and Chinese AI models remain broadly accessible to U.S. users.
But the partnership is drawing attention because it connects a business closely tied to the U.S. president with Chinese AI developers that his own administration has identified as potential security risks.
AI, crypto and geopolitics are becoming increasingly difficult to separate.