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Jensen Huang's first post on X is a policy letter co-signed by major tech companies arguing that open AI models enhance safety, competition, and innovation, urging Washington not to restrict them.

Jensen Huang is finally on X. His first post on the platform wasn't a product launch or a keynote replay. It was a policy letter. "Open Weights and American AI Leadership." July 24, 2026. Co-signed by Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Hugging Face, Mozilla, and Palantir. The argument is straightforward. Open models let startups, universities, and public institutions build on frontier AI without paying frontier prices. They let organizations control their own data, adapt models to their own needs, and deploy wherever their business demands. They prevent the most powerful technology in history from being locked behind a handful of providers. The safety argument is the one that inverts the usual debate. Closed models are single points of failure. When one provider gets breached or fails silently, nobody outside can detect it. Open models let a global community of researchers find and fix vulnerabilities before they become weapons. Transparency over secrecy. And here's what makes this significant. Jensen has been making this case for months, on stage in Paris, in interviews, in front of anyone who would listen. He told Axios this week that American companies should absolutely be free to use Chinese models. None of it moved Washington. So he took it to the platform he had avoided for years, and put twenty-four other companies behind him. The letter tells Washington that restricting open models would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas. Washington is deciding right now whether AI gets locked down or stays open. He made his position public before regulators make the decision for the industry. The most powerful CEO in tech just told the world that openness is part of the safety answer, not a threat to it. And he said it on his very first day on X.
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Jensen Huang is finally on X.

His first post on the platform wasn’t a product launch or a keynote replay. It was a policy letter.

“Open Weights and American AI Leadership.” July 24, 2026. Co-signed by Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Hugging Face, Mozilla, and Palantir.

The argument is straightforward. Open models let startups, universities, and public institutions build on frontier AI without paying frontier prices. They let organizations control their own data, adapt models to their own needs, and deploy wherever their business demands.

They prevent the most powerful technology in history from being locked behind a handful of providers.

The safety argument is the one that inverts the usual debate. Closed models are single points of failure. When one provider gets breached or fails silently, nobody outside can detect it. Open models let a global community of researchers find and fix vulnerabilities before they become weapons. Transparency over secrecy.

And here’s what makes this significant. Jensen has been making this case for months, on stage in Paris, in interviews, in front of anyone who would listen. He told Axios this week that American companies should absolutely be free to use Chinese models. None of it moved Washington.

So he took it to the platform he had avoided for years, and put twenty-four other companies behind him.

The letter tells Washington that restricting open models would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas. Washington is deciding right now whether AI gets locked down or stays open.

He made his position public before regulators make the decision for the industry.

The most powerful CEO in tech just told the world that openness is part of the safety answer, not a threat to it. And he said it on his very first day on X.

Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang): For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

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