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Meta, NVIDIA, Palantir Among 20+ Firms Urging Congress to Back Open-Weight AI

Over 20 companies told Congress that open-weight models let researchers examine model behaviour and identify vulnerabilities, while closed systems can fail in ways outsiders cannot detect. (Illustration: AI FrontPage)

More than 20 technology companies, among them Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir, have jointly urged Congress to promote open-weight AI models, arguing that concentrating advanced capability behind a handful of closed systems weakens competition and creates single points of failure.