House committees probe Cursor parent Anysphere and Airbnb over use of Chinese AI models

Two Republican-led House committees—the House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee—jointly sent letters to Anysphere and Airbnb on Wednesday requesting information on their use of Chinese AI models, the decisions behind their choices, and communications with Chinese model providers.

Anysphere released Composer 2, an AI model built on Kimi (a model from Beijing's Moonshot AI), which the company says performs comparably to top models from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. Airbnb built a customer service agent using Alibaba's Qwen, which CEO Brian Chesky called 'fast and cheap.'

Lawmakers cited national security concerns, with House Homeland Security Committee chair John Moolenaar stating that 'the AI models these companies use are trained by China's censorship regime and introduce hidden vulnerabilities that put Americans' data and businesses at risk.'