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Jensen Huang has finally taken sides.
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Jensen Huang made his first public statement on X, endorsing open-source AI development rather than promoting NVIDIA hardware—a strategic pivot driven by US regulatory threats to restrict open-weight models and the rise of cost-efficient Chinese AI startups like DeepSeek and Kimi K3 that have proven open-source can match closed-source performance.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models and AI Infrastructure.
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US regulators are moving to classify open-weight AI models as high-risk, which would kill the demand flywheel NVIDIA depends on; Huang's sudden endorsement of open source signals the threat is real, and you should expect this regulatory push to accelerate regardless of his intervention.
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