@morphllm has signed the open weights letter
the models train on the inheritance of humanity. humanity should remain capable of possessing, understanding, and extending them.
the deepest argument for open weights is not that open models are cheaper, or even that they create more competition. it is that models are compressed civilization.
they train on the accumulated work of scientists, programmers, writers, artists, institutions, open-source communities, and generations of people who made their knowledge legible to others. model developers add enormous amounts of engineering, compute, judgment, and risk to this inheritance. that work is difficult and deserves to be rewarded.
but it would be a strange equilibrium if models could learn from the open output of an entire civilization while the resulting intelligence remained available only through a small number of closed interfaces.
open weights turn intelligence from a service you receive into a material you can work with. you can inspect it, modify it, specialize it, run it on your own infrastructure, and preserve what you build on top of it. a hospital, factory, university, startup, or country can accumulate capability without depending on the permission of a single provider.
this is how real technological ecosystems form. not around one perfect oracle, but around thousands of people adapting a shared foundation to problems its original creators could never have anticipated.
there are real risks to releasing powerful models, and openness is not automatically safe. but concentration is not automatically safe either. a future built around a handful of closed systems is fragile in ways we are only beginning to understand.
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.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
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