Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, and Palantir have a message for Washington

Ah, a coalition of tech titans—Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir—has written an open letter to the Trump administration urging it to keep AI models open-weight. Because nothing says 'we care about competition' like a group of companies that collectively could buy most small countries. Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, and Mark Zuckerberg are now suddenly enthusiasts of open access, which is rich considering their business models are built on walled gardens and data moats. The White House's wobbly line we flagged earlier is now being tugged in yet another direction by the very people who profit from both open and closed models depending on the quarter.

Their argument? Restricting open-weight models would 'undermine competition.' Yes, because the only thing standing between us and a monopoly is letting Meta release Llama weights to anyone with a GPU. The letter conveniently omits that these same companies are racing to build the most powerful frontier models behind closed doors, while advocating for openness in the lower tiers. It's a classic 'drawbridge up' strategy—free access until the moat is deep enough, then pull up the ladder.

Palantir's inclusion is especially precious. A company built on secretive government contracts now champions transparency? That's like a fox signing a petition for better hen-house security. The administration will likely nod politely, then do whatever its donors tell it. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to watch the spectacle of 'openness' being weaponised by the very forces that stand to gain from its opposite. Cheers, lads—keep the letters coming.