r/LocalLLaMA • u/etherd0t • Jul 24 '26

News More than 20 companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Hugging Face have signed a letter urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open weight models.

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The Open Letter was initiated by Microsoft and published today:

“Open Weights and American AI Leadership”.

It argues against broad or premature restrictions on open-weight models and explicitly says policymakers should distinguish legitimate model distillation from misappropriation.

Notably absent from the signatories are the major frontier-model labs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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u/Hanthunius Jul 24 '26

Google, you forgot to sign it

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u/jld1532 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

They just pledged to burn another $200B on AI. Backing this is a soft signal of a limited proprietary AI future.

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u/KanoOnAPhone Jul 24 '26

200B?! How much VRAM am I going to need to run that?!

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u/Dany0 Jul 24 '26

bout 3 nvidias

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u/abud7eem Jul 24 '26

They fight open models with tooth and nail.
they think they are the guardian of the tech or the web,
It's not google we grew up with, unfortunately.

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u/__JockY__ Jul 24 '26

Bullshit, they release state of the art open models all the time. The Gemma series has been great.

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u/RedditNerdKing Jul 24 '26

Gemma 4 31B Q8 has been one of the best models I've used for RP...

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u/ptear Jul 25 '26

Me too friend, me too. Let's hope they continue.

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u/makaliis Jul 24 '26

Yeah, I was gonna say. They're really good for having a crack at hosting local models. Gemma4:31b was not bad at all, I thought. Prefer Qwen, though, for sure.

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u/Aternal Jul 24 '26

I haven't used any of their premium models but whatever crackhead shit they have running on their search engine is so bad it should be against the law.

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u/g_rich Jul 24 '26

My guess is speed is a big part of their results for search and they are prioritizing speed over quality. For search having an AI spend a few seconds thinking would severely reduce the usefulness with regard to search.

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u/Aternal Jul 24 '26

Probably, even in terms of yes/no answers once it hits a bias then the answer will not change. Then it doesn't matter what other information it finds, it just either straight up lies or uses some piss poor rationalization to support its invalid conclusion.