OpenAI joins the “Open Weights and American AI Leadership” signatories
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-25
- OpenAI is listed as one of the signatories to the Open Weights and American AI Leadership statement.
- The statement argues that open-source software helped build the modern internet and that AI should follow a similar path: a strong open ecosystem, wider access, more competition, and greater user control.
- The signatory list includes many major tech and AI names, such as Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Mistral, Hugging Face, GitHub, Perplexity, Replit, and Y Combinator.
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