NVIDIA, Meta and Microsoft back letter against premature open-weight restrictions
haider1 · x · 2026-07-25
More than 20 companies, including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Hugging Face, signed a letter urging policymakers not to impose premature restrictions on open-weight models.
- Jensen Huang’s accompanying note argues open models are important for safety, cybersecurity, innovation, and sovereignty.
- The letter’s framing is that the world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
- The post also highlights the absence of OpenAI’s signature, turning the message into a broader industry signal on open-model policy.
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