Jensen Huang, the leather-jacket-wearing CEO of the world’s most valuable chipmaker, has been running a multi-trillion dollar company for three decades without a personal social media presence. That streak ended on July 24 when he posted on X for the very first time.
And he didn’t start with a selfie or a “hello world.” He dropped an open letter titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” making the case that open AI models are essential to US competitiveness, safety, and national sovereignty.
What Huang actually said
The letter, shared from his newly activated @JensenHuang account at 13:18 GMT, argues that the AI industry needs both open and closed models to thrive. Huang laid out several core arguments: open models improve safety through broader scrutiny, drive faster innovation by letting more developers build on shared foundations, strengthen cybersecurity, and reinforce national sovereignty by preventing any single entity from controlling access to AI capabilities.
The post racked up over 1,500 likes within hours. Huang managed it on his literal first post, with no previous posts recorded on the account prior to this.
