Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta urge Washington to avoid panic-driven curbs on open-weight AI

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and 22 other organizations are urging U.S. policymakers not to impose sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI models, arguing that transparency and broad access make the technology more auditable, resilient and competitive. The signatories, which include IBM, Palantir, Mistral, Hugging Face, Mozilla, Andreessen Horowitz and the Linux Foundation, said open and closed models should be treated as complementary parts of the AI market rather than opposing camps. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sharpened that case in an Axios interview on July 23, 2026, rejecting claims that AI will erase half of U.S. jobs or pose an existential threat to humanity as “complete nonsense.” A day later, on July 24, he used his first post on X to promote the letter, saying the market needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. The intervention comes as the Trump administration weighs action against Chinese AI developers accused of using American technology without permission and as policymakers scrutinize foreign open-weight systems such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. The coalition says targeted action against proven intellectual-property theft and other misuse would be more effective than broad limits, and warns against treating every use of distillation as theft. It also argues that proposals such as remote “kill switch” controls would handicap American developers while doing little to reduce real risk. Huang has also argued for more specific export controls rather than broad restrictions that could hurt U.S. competitiveness while China builds more domestic capability.