EventPolicyJuly 27, 2026
Tech companies sign letter urging US to protect open-weight AI models

NVIDIA, Microsoft, Palantir, and other industry leaders signed a letter to Congress arguing that open-weight models are essential for American AI leadership, security, and innovation. The coalition advocates for maintaining an open ecosystem to ensure competition and prevent the concentration of AI benefits.
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“Open weights strengthen competition and competition is what keeps the benefits of AI broadly...x.com
Nvidia, Microsoft Lead Call for Open-Weight AI Models After Kimibloomberg.com
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against 'premature restrictions' of open-weight modelscnbc.com
Open ecosystems are the foundation of a healthy AI industry. We have always believed that collectiv...bsky.app
Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta and 22 others defended open weights. Anthropic and OpenAI didn’t sign.thenewstack.io
Everyone Signed This Letter (...minus Anthropic)youtube.com
Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, IBM, Palantir and more released a joint letter warning Washington not to kill open-weight modelsreddit.com
Our position on open-weights modelsanthropic.com
Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf]images.nvidia.com
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