Open letters about AI development
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- Blog / Newsletter2026-08-02 07:15:57Open letters about AI development
<h4>Open letters about AI development</h4> <p><em>I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/2/july-newsletter/">my sponsors-only newsletter</a> but I've decided to share it here as well.</em></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/">Open Weights and American AI Leadership</a></strong> was shepherded by Microsoft, dated July 24th, and signed by 235 AI-adjacent companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combinator, The Linux Foundation and (a later signer) OpenAI.</p> <p>It's clearly an argument designed to counter <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kimi">any instincts</a> by the current US government to ban or limit open weight models over "safety" concerns - a reasonable consideration given <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/us-government-directive-to-suspend-access/">what happened to Claude Fable 5</a>!</p> <blo