New Delhi, July 25 -- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has backed the expansion of open-weight artificial intelligence models, arguing that openness will be critical to strengthening innovation, competition, cybersecurity and American technological leadership.

In his first post on X, Huang shared a letter signed by NVIDIA and several leading technology companies and organisations titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership". The letter draws parallels between the open-source software movement of the 1980s and the choices facing the United States in the AI era.

The signatories said America's AI leadership should not be measured by the success of a single frontier model, but by its ability to build a strong and open ecosystem that allows AI to...