Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI
AI and ML
Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?
With the US government scrutinizing AI as much as ever, 25 technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging policymakers to support open weight AI models.
The missive [PDF] of nearly a thousand words can be summarized as "Please don't give Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI control of the US AI market."
Coincidentally, those three companies are not among the signatories, a group that includes Dell, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Mozilla, Nvidia, Palantir, and Perplexity, not to mention VC firms that could see their investments tank if federal rules pick market winners.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, however, respondedto the letter by insisting that he's fine with open weight models as long as proprietary models exist too. "I want the US to win in AI both in open source and...
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