The open-weights letter adds NVIDIA, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft to its signers
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-27
The open-weights letter pulls in NVIDIA, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and more
This follow-up highlights the breadth of the signatories: NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Palantir, GitHub, IBM, Perplexity, Mistral and others, spanning model labs, cloud, security and investment firms.
It also emphasizes one policy clarification from the letter: distillation—using one model’s outputs to train or improve another—should be treated as a legitimate and widely used technique, not confused with illegal theft of closed-model value. The authors argue that abuse should be handled through targeted legal and commercial tools, rather than blanket restrictions on the technique itself.
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