Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1284443/meta-nvidia-microsoft-a16z-and-others-sign-a-letter-defending-open-weight-ai-jensen-huan

Lobsters.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/

And Mozilla and Palantir and the Linux Foundation.

This entire letter is rancid. “Governments, invest in us!”

Policymakers have an important opportunity to act. This includes expanding access to compute for startups and researchers, investing in shared training assets (datasets, tools, evaluation frameworks)…

Mandatory “distillation is good when we do it but evil when foreigners do it”. Good job Mozilla, my favorite “internet is for everyone” company, sinking into nationalism!

Distillation… reflects a long tradition of learning from, building upon, and improving existing technologies, a tradition that has helped drive innovation since the rise of the open-source software movement. By contrast, unlawful efforts to extract value from closed models raise legitimate concerns .

Full list:

• American Innovators Network
  (AstroTurf front for Andreessen Horowitz)
• Andreessen Horowitz
• Arcee AI
• Arena
• Black Forest Labs
• Box
• CrowdStrike
• Dell Technologies
• Emergence Capital
• Hugging Face
• IBM
• The Linux Foundation
• Mariana Minerals
• Meta
• Microsoft
• Mistral
• Mozilla
• NVIDIA
• Palantir
• Perplexity
• Reflection
• Replit
• ServiceNow
• Telnyx
• Y Combinator