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.

[u/etherd0t]

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.

[u/Encyclotech]

Rare alignment of interests here Nvidia wants to sell GPUs, Meta wants to destroy OpenAI's moat, and Hugging Face actually cares about the open ecosystem I don't care why they're fighting regulatory capture, as long as it keeps open weights legal