Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and Palantir Urge U.S. Policymakers to Avoid Open-Weight AI Restrictions

According to CNBC, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies on Friday urged policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight artificial intelligence models, saying such limits could stifle competition or push innovation overseas. The companies said open-weight models help competition and spread the benefits of AI more broadly, while warning that relying only on closed models is not inherently safe because they can be breached, misused or fail in ways outsiders cannot detect. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared the letter on their personal social media accounts. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter, even as both companies prepare for potentially large IPOs and have confidentially filed prospectuses with the Securities and Exchange Commission.