Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering
27-07-2026 23:34 via theregister.com

Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering

UPDATED Nvidia has made a fortune on the AI boom. But the flames of opposition to open-weights models — that is, models that anyone can download, modify, and run on their own infrastructure — could change that, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang isn’t waiting to find out. On Friday, a cadre of tech titans wrote an open letter [PDF] offering a counterpoint to the mounting anti-open-weights rhetoric from American companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Signatories included Meta, Microsoft,
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