welcome to year 84 of intelligence diary co-working at or inspired by The Economist
https://x.com/JensenHuang Nvidia Jensen Huang has opened a twitter account to celebrate Americans
who celebrate the intelligence freedom of open weight AI models. These are the
first 25 companies to join the call he original 25 foundational signatories
that formed this collective front to optimize and protect open-weight model
integration include: [1]
The Core Technology & Infrastructure Giants
NVIDIA
Meta
Microsoft
IBM
Dell Technologies
Palantir
ServiceNow [1]
Rising AI Labs & Platforms
Mistral AI
Hugging Face
Perplexity
Replit [1]
Open-Source Bodies & Security Firms
The Linux Foundation
Mozilla
CrowdStrike [1]
The Venture Capital & Startup Ecosystem (The "Little Tech"
Backers)
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
American Innovtaors Network
Y Combinator
.The Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter underwent a massive shift immediately after its launch. While it began as a specialized group of 25 companies, it surpassed 230 signatories as major tech giants, infrastructure companies, and AI labs rushed to join the coalition The Blockbuster Additions" OpenAI Infrastructure & Hardware Expansions AMD SpaceX Cisco Cloudflare ... AI Infrastructure & Developer Tooling GitHub Scale AI Cohere Fireworks AI Ollama Vercel Modal LangChain ... Enterprise & Security Heavyweights Palo Alto Networks DoorDash ... | AI 1905-65-2025 – Diary of Intelligence’s 60 years of prep
and 60 years of exponential acceleration The need for mathematical tools to advance human
intelligence was first openly envisioned by Einstein in 1905 (start of E:MC squared
genre). It became the life work of peer genii eg NET ( Neumann-Einstein-Turing).
They mapped exponential gaps in human and engineers’ system understanding of
nature’s abundancy encountering risks eg nuclear weapons and opportunities eg
potential of nuclear or quantum energy In 1956 Artificial Intelligence (AI) was coined – some say
at an academic conference in Dartmouth hosted by McCarthy but from 1950s TheEconomist sees AI as celebrating the lifetime legacy of von Neumann (and his
connections with Einstein’s and Turing’s great challenges) – Computer and Brain
(1956). In two year period 1955=7, all three of Neumann-Einstein-Turing had
parted earth. Nonetheless, by the 1964 Tokyo Olympics it was clear humans were lifting
off around three-engineering races –
between 1965 and 2025 connecting 3-in-one
million fold accelerating techs (ie 10**18) locally and globally as well as
into space Microelectronics Mobilizing life with computer brains Death of\Distance as cost in sharing maps of life critical
data – eg satellite clouds (1G to 6G) |
with growing log of contributions at https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance/?ncid=so-twit-957725
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=== Major absentees are apple, amazon, anthropic - Anthropic's Amodei explains why he just doesnt get open intelligence here
Gemini continues
Jensen Huang’s approach is a masterclass in regional framing, and he is not directly calling on other countries to replicate the American open-weights lobby. [1, 2]
Instead, he uses two distinct, parallel narratives customized for different markets to protect Nvidia’s bottom line. [1, 2]
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[ DOMESTIC POLICY (U.S.) ] [ GLOBAL COMMERCIAL (SOVEREIGN AI) ]
• Frame: "American AI Leadership" • Frame: "Sovereign Self-Reliance"
• Goal: Keep model weights open • Goal: Build localized "AI Factories"
• Core Argument: Open weights prevent centralizing • Core Argument: Control your own data, culture,
power in just 2-3 closed labs. and intelligence on local hardware.
1. The Global Strategy: "Sovereign AI"
When dealing with individual countries (like South Korea, India, Japan, Canada, or nations across Europe), Huang rarely uses the phrase "open-weights lobby". Instead, he targets them through his Sovereign AI framework.
His pitch to each nation focuses on their most distinctive regional contributions:
- Refining National Data: He explicitly tells world leaders that their country’s data, language, history, and culture are a "natural resource".
- The "AI Factory" Blueprint: Instead of relying on a closed American cloud provider (like OpenAI or Anthropic), he convinces countries to build their own local Nvidia-powered "AI Factories" to process that localized data themselves.
2. Why He Doesn’t Call for Global Open-Weights Networks
Huang's recent push for open-weights is a hyper-targeted defensive maneuver explicitly for Washington lawmakers, rather than a global philosophical crusade.
- Avoiding Geopolitical Landmines: If Huang explicitly encouraged foreign countries to build unified "open-weight networks," it could easily clash with U.S. export controls and national security directives. For example, a global open-weights coalition would inherently benefit Chinese firms like Moonshot AI (creators of the Kimi K3 open model).
- A Subtle Commercial Reality: Open-weight models require heavy, customized physical hardware to run locally. By quietly letting open-weights proliferate globally under the guise of "Sovereign AI," Huang ensures that every country, startup, and localized cloud provider has to buy massive amounts of Nvidia chips to host those open models, all without Nvidia ever having to take a controversial, direct political stance abroad.
Would you like to look closer at an example of this strategy in action, like Nvidia's recent 200MW "AI Factory" deal with South Korea's NAVER, or see how European leaders are reacting to his Sovereign AI push?
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