{"id":4156,"date":"2026-07-25T04:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:17:45","slug":"jensen-huang-just-used-his-first-ever-x-post-to-warn-the-ai-industry-not-to-make-the-mistake-that-software-narrowly-avoided-in-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"Jensen Huang just used his first ever X post to warn the AI industry not to make the mistake that software narrowly avoided in the 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The letter argued instead that open-weight AI models should be preserved as a foundation for American leadership, suggesting that Huang and his ilk genuinely fear that they won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4154\">Canada celebrates new Detroit River bridge connecting Ontario to Michigan as 50% tariff feud keeps American officials away<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty,\u201d Huang wrote. \u201cThe world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He drew a direct parallel between today\u2019s fight over open-weight AI and the 1980s open-source software movement, arguing that just as open-source code became foundational to the modern internet despite early skepticism, open AI models must be allowed to flourish rather than face \u201cpremature restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter carries roughly 25 signers, including Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Andreessen Horowitz, Perplexity, and IBM, and makes three central claims: open models expand economic access for startups and universities, they strengthen competition by preventing a few firms from controlling the technology, and they actually improve security by letting more researchers audit code and patch vulnerabilities rather than relying on a small number of closed \u201csingle points of failure.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It also defends distillation \u2014 the practice of training one model using another\u2019s outputs \u2014 as a legitimate, longstanding research technique that shouldn\u2019t be conflated with theft, even as this remains a live controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoftware developed by the open-source community now supports most of the internet,\u201d the letter argued, and it underlies systems used by the world\u2019s largest technology companies, along with the U.S. military and federal agencies conducting critical missions like scientific research and cybersecurity. Open source did far more than lower the cost of software, the letter continued \u2014 it created a \u201cshared foundation of knowledge on which generations of American engineers and entrepreneurs built their institutional sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4152\">RFK Jr.\u2019s peptide push narrowly gains backing from FDA advisers despite objections from scientists<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post lands as Washington debates whether to restrict Chinese open-weight models like Moonshot AI\u2019s Kimi K3, which was released July 16 and ranks among the most capable models anywhere. White House adviser Michael Kratsios has accused Moonshot of using distillation to copy a U.S. model to build Kimi K3, adding tension to the distillation debate.<\/p>\n<p>A week before Huang\u2019s post, Chinese President Xi Jinping made his debut appearance at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, delivering a keynote that pointedly claimed the same \u201copenness\u201d mantle for China. He called for \u201ca symphony of global cooperation\u201d rather than \u201ca solo performance by any single country,\u201d and urged the world to \u201cjointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI\u201d \u2014 read by analysts as a direct jab at U.S. export controls. Xi also stressed a \u201cpeople-centered\u201d approach and pledged cooperation with Africa, Latin America, Asia, and BRICS nations to prevent \u201cnew historical injustices\u201d in AI access, backing this with concrete offers like 5,000 AI training slots for developing countries.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The day before Xi\u2019s speech, 29 countries \u2014 including Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan \u2014 signed an agreement in Shanghai establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a Shanghai-headquartered body meant to rival U.S.-led AI governance, with UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in attendance. Some analysts questioned whether the tech world was splitting into rival blocs.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The timing creates a genuine problem for the U.S. coalition\u2019s messaging: Xi is now occupying the same \u201cpro-openness, anti-restriction\u201d rhetorical space that Huang\u2019s letter claims for American industry, just from a rival capital. This is compounded by Huang\u2019s own record of praising Chinese models \u2014 he previously said \u201cChina will win the AI race\u201d and more recently called Chinese open models \u201cexcellent\u201d \u2014 putting Nvidia\u2019s CEO closer to Beijing\u2019s framing than to the more hawkish stance of OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which are notably absent from the open-weights letter and have warned Washington about the risks of strong Chinese open models.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>For this story,\u00a0<\/em>Fortune<em>\u00a0journalists used generative AI as a research tool. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4150\">\u2018There are no rules. 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