Open-Source AI's Unlikely Alliance Faces Its Toughest Test Yet

The Debate

Can the AI industry have it both ways? That's the question haunting Silicon Valley this week after two seismic events collided like trains on the same track.

First, a coalition of 25 tech companies — from Microsoft and Meta to Nvidia and IBM — published an open letter demanding the US government embrace open-weight AI models, warning that restrictions would hand the AI race to China. Jensen Huang made his first-ever post on X to amplify it. It was the kind of industry unity that...