As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open weight restrictions | TechCrunch0

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• July 25, 2026

Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models. The letter comes as Washington debates how the United States should respond to accusations that Chinese AI labs are stealing intellectual property from their American counterparts and