Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI

With the US government scrutinizing AI as much as ever, 25 technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging policymakers to support open weight AI models. The missive [PDF] of nearly a thousand words can be summarized as "Please don't give Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI control of the US AI market." Coincidentally, those three companies are not among the signatories, a group that includes Dell, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Mozilla