GoKawiilNvidia joins Microsoft, Meta, IBM in open-weight AI letter
On July 24, Nvidia signed 'Open Weights and American AI Leadership' alongside Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Hugging Face and Mistral. The letter argues that U.S. AI leadership requires not just powerful frontier models but an open ecosystem that spreads AI capabilities across the economy, distinguishing open-weight models—whose parameters can be downloaded, run and modified under licences like Apache 2.0—from closed models accessed only via API.