Tech Giants Push Back Against Open-Weight AI Restrictions

Nvidia, Microsoft Back Open-Source AI Models in US Policy Fight

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM and other major technology groups have urged US lawmakers not to impose sweeping restrictions on open-weight artificial intelligence models. In a joint letter on open weights and American AI leadership, the coalition argued that downloadable models expand access to AI, encourage competition and give organisations more control over how they use the technology. The letter’s 25 signatories include Hugging Face, Mistral,…

Silicon Valley Startups Urge Trump to Avoid Ban on Chinese AI Models

A coalition of technology companies has urged the Trump administration not to impose broad restrictions on Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models, warning that such a ban could undermine innovation and raise costs for U.S. startups, according to a letter signed by firms including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia. [1] The letter, reported by […]

Cohere joins Silicon Valley heavyweights in call for open-source AI

Canadian AI scaleup Cohere is joining the chorus of tech companies calling for AI models to be more transparent.  The news: In his very first post on X last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared an open letter in support of releasing open-weight AI models to build a more competitive and accessible AI economy in the US. The letter defines open-weight models as large language models (LLMs) that can be freely downloaded, inspected, modified, and run…

Why banning open-source AI is a bad idea

The best response to capable Chinese open models is not to make US developers less capable. It is to build better, safer, more competitive US models—open and closed. The post Why banning open-source AI is a bad idea appeared first on Atlantic Council.