In Face of US Crackdown, Microsoft, Nvidia CEOs Back Open-Weight AI Models
“The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models,” Huang wrote in his first post on X.“Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem,” Nadella wrote in his own tweet. That said, open-weight models—which China has excelled at developing—are free to download and use, creating pressure on closed-source models that force users to go through top AI providers such as OpenAI for access. Chinese startup Moonshot’s Kimi 3 is an upcoming open-weight model that’s sent shockwaves over seemingly closing the gap with the US’s top AI models.
- ▪“The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models,” Huang wrote in his first post on X.“Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem,” Nadella wrote in his own tweet.
- ▪That said, open-weight models—which China has excelled at developing—are free to download and use, creating pressure on closed-source models that force users to go through top AI providers such as OpenAI for access.
- ▪Chinese startup Moonshot’s Kimi 3 is an upcoming open-weight model that’s sent shockwaves over seemingly closing the gap with the US’s top AI models.
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- ▪ OpenAI quietly signs letter from Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta warning about dangers of 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models — as the White House accuses China of stealing from Anthropic — TechRadar
- ▪ Nvidia, Palantir, Meta warn against ‘premature restrictions’ of open-weight models — South China Morning Post
- ▪ Nvidia, Microsoft lead call for open-weight AI models after Kimi — Fortune
- ▪ Nvidia, Meta, and Microsoft are urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AI — Quartz
- ▪ Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, and Palantir have a message for Washington — Business Insider
- ▪ Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against 'premature restrictions' of open-weight models — CNBC — Top
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After a Trump official accused Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 of cloning US tech, the CEOs of Microsoft and Nvidia are subtly nudging the White House to refrain from banning open-weight AI models from Chinese companies.On Friday, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang tweeted a public letter about the value of open-weight AI models, which anyone can, in theory, download and run if they have the required computing resources. “The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models,” Huang wrote in his first post on X.“Open-weight models are essential to a healthy AI ecosystem,” Nadella wrote in his own tweet.
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