Nvidia CEO's first X post backs 150-firm letter urging US government against banning Chinese AI
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang has used his first post on X to support an open letter urging Washington to keep open-weight AI models available.
The letter pushes back against the Trump administration’s intentions to restrict open source models. These models perform on par with U.S. models while being offered at a lower price.
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Jensen Huang, who runs Nvidia, the most valuable chipmaker in the AI boom, chose to use a policy argument for his July 24 introduction to X (formerly Twitter).
He shared a letter signed by Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Dell (NASDAQ: DELL), and Palantir (NASDAQ: PLTR) that explains the importance of access to open source models. Huang stated that these models accelerate innovation, strengthen safety and cybersecurity, and enable sovereignty.
The letter places Huang on the opposite side of Anthropic and some officials inside the administration who want tighter limits on Chinese labs.
Huang has also separately referred to Chinese open-source systems as “excellent” and said American firms should be free to use them.
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