Nvidia Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA, XETRA:NVD) CEO Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time on Friday, sharing a multi-company letter that defends open-weight AI models as essential to US technology leadership.
Huang, who joined the platform last month but had not posted until now, used his debut message to promote a letter signed by Nvidia and roughly 20 other organizations, including Meta, Microsoft and Palantir.
The letter argues that open models strengthen safety, accelerate innovation and support national AI sovereignty, and that US leadership should not rest on a single frontier model alone.
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.… pic.twitter.com/t02bi51N4C
— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) July 24, 2026
The post follows a week of public comments from Huang on the AI policy debate in Washington. Earlier in the week, he told Axios that American companies should be free to use Chinese AI models, and he separately described Chinese models as strong performers that expand demand for Nvidia's chips and data center infrastructure rather than threaten US companies.
Those comments put Huang at odds with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who this week warned that Chinese AI firms could face sanctions over what he called industrial-scale distillation attacks on US intellectual property. The letter Huang shared addresses that concern directly, arguing that unlawful extraction of value from closed models is a legitimate issue but should be handled through targeted legal and commercial measures rather than broad restrictions on open-weight AI.
The letter also frames open-weight models as a way to widen access to AI development, allowing startups, established businesses, universities and public institutions to build on advanced models without training their own from scratch.
Huang had stayed off X while rival chipmaker executives built a presence on the platform for years. His account, registered in June, listed just a handful of followers before Friday's post.