A broad coalition of companies and institutions, including Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Hugging Face, and the Linux Foundation signed a letter, arguing that open-weight models, which are systems anyone can download, inspect, and modify, deserve a major place in the US' AI strategy, not a defensive afterthought.

Huang told Axios that American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese models.

He also believes that American AI should be accessible to everyone.