AI Industry Opposes US Ban on Open Weight Models; Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Absent
Nvidia organized an open letter from much of the AI industry opposing a potential US government ban or restriction on open weight models, citing damage to the broader AI ecosystem. The campaign notably excluded Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, the three leading frontier model labs, which did not sign on.
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### from the _funny-how-that-works_ dept Just recently Karl warned that we were going to see some absolute nonsense as the US sought to somehow “ban” Chinese AI models from being used in the US. That seems to already be happening. It kicked off with talk that the US might “fight Chinese AI” using nearly identical arguments to what was used to ban (or force the sale of) TikTok before it. Some combination of “national security threat” combined with “oh no China” propaganda. But most of the AI industry is now speaking out, in an open letter put together by Nvidia, against the potential path that the Trump administration considered taking: an attempt to ban or limit so-called “open weight” models. The companies seem to recognize that focusing on holding back these competitive models would actually do much more damage to the wider AI ecosystem. There were notable exceptions from the campaign in defense of open weight models: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google (the three leading frontier model la