Open weights = freedom. You can run them on your own hardware. No vendor can pull the plug. No API can deprecate you. No company logs your p…

Open weights = freedom. You can run them on your own hardware. No vendor can pull the plug. No API can deprecate you. No company logs your private data. That's sovereignty. Closed models hand one company a monopoly on intelligence. Open weights hand it back to everyone. And it tracks the Constitution: - 1st Amendment: publishing a model is speech. You can't ban it any more than you can ban a math paper. - 4th Amendment: local inference = your data never leaves your machine. Privacy by design. - The whole point of the Bill of Rights: don't let one centralized power control everything. The framers distrusted concentrated, unaccountable power. A handful of labs owning the most powerful tech on earth is exactly that. Open weights is the American answer 🇺🇸 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. Th…

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Source: Fireworks AI (X) | 2026-07-24