Michael Kratsios

“Michael Kratsios — White House OSTP director. Also cited for recent public support of open-source AI.”

“Michael Kratsios posed the framing question to industry leaders at G20 that prompted Musk's deregulation comments.”

“We said we're going to have a nuclear reactor in space by 28.”

“NSF also put out an announcement around four-year PhDs that are done in partnership with industry. So people can graduate out of the PhD program and go into industry much more quickly.”

“I honestly think it's a feature and it's not a bug. And I think the alternative to an extreme is kind of what the PRC or what China is doing.”

“If you think of someone like Demis, for example, at Google that, you know, has won a Nobel Prize.”

“Russ Vogt, who's the OMB director, the budget director, and myself, we wrote our annual R&D priorities memo.”

“I think over the last 15 or 20 years, I think science has been deeply and deeply politicized. And we no longer are asking sort of the very hard and important questions of, you know, what is a scientific method? How should we be approaching it? Should we be questioning some of these conclusions?”

“They found that roughly one quarter or 25% of grants at NSF during that time period went towards DEI-related, quote unquote, science. And if you think about that, that's an astronomical amount. That is roughly $2 billion a year times four years. That's $8 billion of science funding that went to these DEI-related initiatives.”

“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios have both publicly posted in support of open-source AI, suggesting the administration views competitive openness as a strategic asset, not a liability — at least for now.”

“China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open source model performing on par with frontier American models at roughly 50% lower cost. The speed of commoditization is the real story — not just that China caught up, but how fast the entire category is repricing.”

“The Trump administration is constructing a two-tier distillation doctrine — one that protects open-weight AI development for domestic innovators while creating enforcement mechanisms (sanctions, Entity List) against Chinese firms accused of industrial-scale IP theft.”

“White House science adviser Michael Kratsios directly accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of stealing from Anthropic by covertly distilling its Fable model to build Kimi K3.”