NVIDIA, Meta, and 25 Others Sign Open Letter Backing Open Weights for US AI Leadership
hugobowne · x · 2026-08-04
Twenty-five companies, including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, and Hugging Face, published an open letter arguing that open-weight models are essential to maintaining American AI leadership.
Meanwhile, Chinese labs are actively releasing downloadable open-weight models like Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GLM, providing foundational infrastructure for global developers. Experts like Sebastian Raschka have long been dedicated to helping the community understand these models by reading technical reports and building architectures from scratch.
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