NVIDIA released a letter with ecosystem partners, including Microsoft, Palantir, ServiceNow, Box and others, underscoring how critical open source models are to U.S. competitiveness and U.S. leadership on AI.
In the letter, American companies assert that open-weight AI models are foundational to America’s future as open-source software was to the modern internet — and that the U.S. should run faster, not close itself off.
Some key takeaways:
- Open models help America lead: Open ecosystems move faster because more developers, startups, researchers, and institutions can build.
- Open source built modern computing: Linux, the internet stack, and shared software lowered cost, spread knowledge, and made systems stronger.
- Open weights make AI accessible: Startups, universities, companies, and governments can use advanced AI without starting from zero.
- Open models give people control: You can inspect them, tune them, run them on your data, and build AI for your own mission.
- America should run faster, not close itself off: Openness drives competition, improves safety, and helps the world build on American technology.
The letter calls on policymakers to expand compute access, invest in shared infrastructure, and avoid restrictions that stifle competition or push innovation overseas.
This position reflects NVIDIA’s broader commitment to the open-source ecosystem, with more than 600 repositories on Hugging Face over the past year, making NVIDIA one of the industry’s leading contributors.
