As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

These companies, alongside other closed-source AI developers like Google DeepMind and SpaceX, are notable in their absence at the bottom of this letter. 

Those who signed the letter have an obvious economic stake in seeing open AI models flourish. Companies like Nvidia, Microsoft Azure, and other infrastructure providers have a vested interest in pushing for commoditized models: If models are interchangeable, people will buy more GPUs, rent more cloud capacity, build more applications, and use more routing layers. 

The letter encourages policymakers to expand access to compute for startups and researchers, invest in shared training assets like datasets, tools and evaluation frameworks, and ” the frontier plural by avoiding premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas.”