Open source powers everything in America. We must fight any and all attempts to restrict it in the age of AI. We must never surrender to the…

Open source powers everything in America. We must fight any and all attempts to restrict it in the age of AI. We must never surrender to the short-sighted safetyists and hawks. Open source is the entire reason American tech dominates across the globe. If you can't see this it is largely because it is invisible but your blindness to it is no excuse. You are protected by a smoothly running invisible shield the powers everything and that shield is open source. It powers every major cloud. The router in your house. Your phone. The servers at your work. The NASDAQ and NY Stock Exchange. Radar systems. Just about every website you know and love. The SaaS you're reading this on right now, called X. Restricting it in the AI era is idiotic, short-sighted and foolish at an almost mind boggling level. It is civilizational suicide. Take Microsoft. In the early days of Linux they pushed hard against it and called open source "communism" and "cancer." Imagine if their short-sighted stupidity had won the day? Their Azure cloud now predominately runs Linux. They would have destroyed their own future revenue with their foolishness and greed. In this fight we must never surrender. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender! We stand at a critical crossroads in the debate over AI governance in the United States, and it feels like we are inching closer to a very serious battle over whether or not open source models will even be allowed in an environment where a new de facto licensing regime has been t…

Source: Yann LeCun (X) | 2026-07-09