July 24, 2026★ 25 companies signed the letter★ Washington, D.C.★ Now the rest of us sign

In the two hundred fiftieth year of American independence

Put your name on the Open Weights Letter.

On July 24, twenty-five organizations — NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Hugging Face, Mozilla, Mistral, the Linux Foundation, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator and more — told Washington that America leads in AI by keeping models open: free to download, inspect, modify, and run. NVIDIA's CEO joined X for the first time ever just to share it — over 11 million views in its first hours — and the letter has since grown to more than 270 signatory organizations and into the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry group of the biggest names in tech. Companies have their letter and their alliance. This platform is the complement — for everyone else: individuals, small businesses, startups, developers, and researchers who want a say. Sign it, speak your mind on it, share it. In America's 250th year, it's your turn.

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First · July 24, 2026

The letter

25 companies publish Open Weights and American AI Leadership. Within a day, the roll of company signers doubles to 50.

Then · The big organizations

The alliance

The letter grows into the Open Secure AI Alliance — an industry group of the largest names in tech, keeping open models secure and defended.

Now · You are here

The people

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The original letter holds the companies' names; the Alliance holds the big organizations. This roll holds everyone else — sign as yourself, or carry your small business, startup, or lab in the affiliation line. Names, affiliations, roles, and comments are published on this page for every visitor to see — that's what a sign-on letter is. Nothing else is collected.

The roll of signers

Every name makes it harder to ignore.

The argument, in five articles

What the letter says — without the PDF.

Open source already won this argument once.

In the 1980s, betting on open code sounded reckless. Today it runs most of the internet, the U.S. military's research stack, and every major tech company. The letter's core claim: open-weight models are the sequel — a shared foundation the next generation of American builders can stand on.

II.

Open weights put frontier AI within everyone's reach.

Startups, hospitals, universities, factories, and main-street firms can adapt advanced models instead of training from scratch or paying frontier prices for every task — the right model for the right job at the right cost. That's how AI diffuses into the whole economy, not just a few labs.

III.

Competition keeps the gains broadly shared.

When many organizations can build and deploy, rivalry spreads across models, chips, clouds, and applications. Prices fall, innovation accelerates, and the benefits of AI land across the economy instead of concentrating in a few hands.

IV.

Control belongs with the people who build on it.

Organizations investing in AI shouldn't fear vendor lock-in or losing what they've built. Open weights let them keep their data, run models on their own terms, and own the specialized capability they create — the letter calls this American sovereignty and prosperity.

Openness is a safety strategy, not a safety risk.

The letter doesn't dodge the risk: released weights can't be recalled. But it argues the answer is more eyes, not fewer — defenders need capable models too, and a world of a few closed systems means a few single points of failure. Transparency lets thousands of researchers find and fix what a closed lab can't see.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang — Jensen Huang, NVIDIA. Photo by Peter DaSilva, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The primary source

Read the letter itself.

NVIDIA's founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined X for the first time in his life to share this document — it drew millions of views within hours. Below is the coalition's letter exactly as published, Open Weights and American AI Leadership. Read it, then add your name.

Trouble viewing it here? Open the original letter in a new tab ↗ (hosted by NVIDIA).

★ The post that carried it ★

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.… pic.twitter.com/t02bi51N4C
— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) July 24, 2026

What we're asking Washington

Three moves to keep the ecosystem strong.

01Open the compute gates

Expand access to compute for startups and researchers, so building on advanced AI isn't reserved for the deepest pockets.

02Build shared foundations

Invest in public training assets — datasets, tooling, and evaluation frameworks — the common infrastructure every builder can use.

03Don't regulate openness away

Avoid premature restrictions on open models that choke competition or push innovation offshore — and target actual misappropriation, not standard techniques like distillation.

"…keeping the frontier plural…"— from the coalition letter, July 24, 2026

The companies' half of the movement

The 25 companies who wrote the original letter.

A selection of the founding signatories. The full roster of 25 follows.

American Innovators Network

Andreessen Horowitz

Arcee AI

Arena

Black Forest Labs

Box

CrowdStrike

Dell Technologies

Emergence Capital

Hugging Face

IBM

The Linux Foundation

Mariana Minerals