An open letter titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," dated July 24, 2026 and hosted by NVIDIA, argues that U.S. AI leadership depends on a strong open ecosystem rather than a single frontier model. It states that open weight models — models anyone can download, inspect, modify and run on their own infrastructure — expand access to the AI economy, strengthen competition across chips, clouds, applications and services, and reduce provider lock-in by letting organizations control their own data and deployment. It acknowledges that released weights are beyond the developer's control and hard to trace once modified, but contends prohibition is the wrong response and that openness aids cybersecurity defense, benchmarking and red teaming.
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