NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta and others back open-weight AI as policy debate over distillation heats up
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-07-24
A coalition of major AI companies — including NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, IBM, Mozilla, Dell, Palantir, Perplexity, and Replit — backed a statement supporting open-weight AI.
- The statement urges policymakers not to confuse legitimate model-development techniques with misappropriation.
- It specifically says distillation is widely used for model improvement, evaluation, and validation.
- The message is that open models can support safety, cybersecurity, innovation, and technological sovereignty, and that policy should not broadly restrict techniques that are central to AI progress.
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