Major tech leaders took to social media to tout the benefits of open-weight AI models in a letter signed by Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz and others. This comes as Moonshot’s Kimi K3 has been shaking the AI industry, with the debate intensifying over China’s latest AI breakthroughs and the rise of open-weight models. Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” to discuss why the US needs to accelerate its own open-weight AI ecosystem.
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@zhumich
July 24, 2026 at 4:32 pm
Huawei was banned was not because it has security issue, it is because US companies can not compete! If not banned, it will drive lots of US companies out of business.
@danieltam3923
July 24, 2026 at 4:43 pm
Huawei communication equipment are still used by US military. LOL!
@danieltam3923
July 24, 2026 at 4:48 pm
Your guest was incorrect citing Huawei is banned by US government. US military has continuously been using Huawei communication equipment under waivers and exemptions.
@mercury9x
July 24, 2026 at 4:51 pm
Wtf is she talking about security issue here? you can take the open weight model and serve it in US company without giving anything to china.
@TS73827
July 24, 2026 at 4:56 pm
She’s truly brilliant. This kind of clarity is missing in the American dialog today.
@andwisestupid7465
July 24, 2026 at 8:35 pm
brilliant? how much she earn per month?
@glantani2842
July 24, 2026 at 4:57 pm
“unfortunately” my shiny metal ass, if it wasn’t for chinese open models at this time huggingface would be uberfucked. “unfortunately” people like yourselves still sport global platforms to spread propaganda. “fortunately” instead your time is almost up, yay!
@Phlareox
July 24, 2026 at 5:06 pm
I can’t wait for this AI-Based US economy to fucking collapse. They can’t compete so they ban, which will be the equivalent of shooting themselves in the foot. There’s no way out.
@lightjunction7373
July 24, 2026 at 5:08 pm
The true question is that whether the rest of the world will follow the US ban?
@TomCruise-u9x
July 24, 2026 at 5:12 pm
I’m sure this woman is definitely not a programmer or an engineer — she doesn’t even know what distillation is. Hilarious. Why are there so many women in the leadership of Europe and the US right now? I’m not saying women are bad, but they really don’t understand technology at all — everything they say exists only in their imagination
@reasonrusfromme9731
July 24, 2026 at 5:34 pm
I don’t know what coolaid the lady drank. Chinese open source is a security concern? US models are the biggest security concern.
@vision9275
July 24, 2026 at 6:00 pm
The US is doomed from the start; Trump and his administration are too incompetent for the tasks that lie ahead. The Chinese are dominant across the board. There is little choice but to bury the hatchet and join forces with the Chinese in order to survive.
@moody3844
July 24, 2026 at 6:05 pm
Michele Guida has forgotten that the orange man has pissed off all of our Allies. Furthermore the suggestion that our Allies would use our AI over someone else is slowly but surely becoming a non-starter 🤷🏽♂
@DanFlorio
July 24, 2026 at 6:05 pm
How stupid does this woman think we are?
@eaman11
July 24, 2026 at 6:07 pm
How can they be a security risk? THEY ARE OPEN WEIGHT!
You download those and run them in your business / country!
Closed source proprietary models that run only via an API / subscription in some sociopaths datacenter are a security hazard: they can limit or shut you down anytime and they steal your data.
@mrpoopoo888
July 24, 2026 at 6:31 pm
She talks China being America adversary. Yeah I’m pretty sure at this point America has become every country’s adversary.
@Dan-d1s8k
July 24, 2026 at 6:45 pm
An Open source AI as a national strategy is not going to happen in the US because US AI companies are too greedy and want to protect their investments, so they will just lobby to oust its rivals (Chinese open source AI) from the West. Considering that the US has a track record of weaponizing the dollar I doubt the non-Western world will fully embrace and trust any US made AI.
@gammaknife9933
July 24, 2026 at 7:28 pm
How could such a nut job used to work at Jump administration?
@Faan-v5b
July 24, 2026 at 7:50 pm
Michelle looks Asian,a product of mail order bride?
@skchang168
July 24, 2026 at 7:55 pm
Does people really understand what Open-source/Open-weight model is and how it actually works?
When you download the open weight and set up the model for your own use case, the model DOES NOT MAKE ANY API CALL to go out to internet by itself.
The vanilla model DOES NOT DO ANY TOOL CALLs but reasoning, thinking, and inferencing.
When you open a Chat window from OpenAI or Claude, you are opening an AI agent built by OpenAI or Anthropic that CAN talk to their associated models for reasoning, in response the model may tell the agents to use certain tools to achieve its goals.
Now, you can use an agentic tool, like a Chat window, built by yourself (or any open source AI Chat software), and use the open-weight models, again, you get to control what tools the models can use or you control your agentic-tool (or the right term – the agentic harness) that sits on top the open weight model.
PLEAASE DO NOT SPREAD ANY MORE NONSENSE. The Open-weight models pose NO SECURITY threat, whatsoever, it’s the HARNESS, in this case, you can use an open-source agentic harness from a US company sits on top of the Chinese company release Open-weight model and the model will NOT PHONE HOME and steal your data sending back to China. LOL … clueless reporters, even this lady doesn’t quite understand how AI models works with the AI Agents, LOL.😂😂😂
Go ahead, ban these Open Weight models, I can’t wait to see most (if not all) of US-based AI startups starting to fail and fall behind their global competitions from all over the world because they lose their competing edge in terms of cost due to the outright clueless BAN by the US idiotic government and media. LOL
@KinBook
July 24, 2026 at 7:57 pm
Can the world trust you?
@vrealzhou
July 24, 2026 at 8:11 pm
Chinese view of AI as infrastructure which should benefit everyone and American view of AI as business which only benefits the people can afford. That’s why China has more open weight models but American won’t have good open weight models for a quite long time. Also the businesses depend on private data have to use the Chinese open weight models with no other choices. Time will tell the difference in the long run.
@Cuiejcj
July 24, 2026 at 8:17 pm
China open weight AI can be inspected, tuned and monitored within your own server farm. Open weight AI will always be more secure than close weight AI. Argument against China open weight AI is pure FUD.
@manishdhawan551
July 24, 2026 at 8:23 pm
Guida if wishes were horses beggars would ride. The pipe dream of on shoring friend shoring china plus 1 has proven to what it is a pipe dream. Us trade with china and imports have increased and there is no china plus 1 in sight. Europe. The global south will embrace china open weight models. And usa can just serve 50% of us clients the other 50% will still use chinese a.i on the sly. Because they can still keep their programs in house . As compared to share them with closed a.i and lose their ip. Its not only dollars and cents .its also secuirty of their future
@HA-vh3ti
July 24, 2026 at 8:25 pm
Doesnt it sound a bit Racist – LOL, These idiots will drown American technology and its already strategically defeated
@koyko4
July 24, 2026 at 8:47 pm
You wouldn’t have a job if you cannot lie.
@KMuse99
July 24, 2026 at 9:05 pm
Open source is security concern? LOL It’s Open sourced!! Hello!!
@M17Tom
July 24, 2026 at 10:19 pm
Does she realize more countries are De-Americanizing their tech dependence?
@bestbuybazaar
July 24, 2026 at 11:01 pm
USA should banned themselves from planet earth.
@conworldus
July 24, 2026 at 11:08 pm
All AIs are Chinese even the American ones. Sam Altman doesn’t create AI, his Chinese engineers do.
@evatam4393
July 24, 2026 at 11:17 pm
US and the west have never proofed Chinese technology compromised national security. But US technology is definitely a security risk to its citizen and the world. Edward Snowden showed that US government spies on its citizen and allies. Furthermore, Henry Kissinger said to be a US enemy is dangerous, but its friend is fatal. People and country should have freedom to choose between the Chinese AI or US AI base on objective performance and cost but should not be based on ideology and geopolitics. US is famous for using its hegemonic power to sanction and deny other countries access to its currency and technology. These restrictions are definitely a risk to any country’s national security.
@Challengermo12345
July 25, 2026 at 12:31 am
Basically when u can’t compete, ban them. All of the long expalanations are just bs
@bigbigdog
July 25, 2026 at 4:27 am
She used to work for the States Dept. Enough said.
@MrFsith
July 25, 2026 at 11:40 am
She herself is a security issue
@blackknight4996
July 25, 2026 at 8:51 pm
It shows from her display of low intellect
@jamesteh829
July 25, 2026 at 6:55 am
Sore loser
@teebone2157
July 25, 2026 at 8:24 am
Michelle full of crap as always
@ZZZ-Zeke
July 25, 2026 at 9:33 am
It’s 2026 and yet you are still in your Cold War mindset……
@coderschmoder
July 25, 2026 at 11:00 am
“It’s not about open weight models, but it’s about Chinese open-weight models, which ‘unfortunately’ are the most available”. 😂
@joem0088
July 25, 2026 at 11:37 am
America AI is substantially Chinese AI. Just look at the % of Chinese nationals working US AI lab at elite level. You better hope they don’t just packup and leave.
@ghplatt
July 26, 2026 at 3:00 am
75% if you include American born Chinese
@MrFsith
July 25, 2026 at 11:41 am
Just watched 1 minute. This woman should be banned from tv.
@vinodmathew3036
July 25, 2026 at 12:20 pm
This is the moment Americans are realizing that they we were just doing the facility management. Out of the eight co-authors of the foundational 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need”, 7 out of 8 authors were either born outside the United States or are the children of recent immigrants.
@TomM-p3o
July 25, 2026 at 2:45 pm
NVIDIA is doing a lot to provide open source models, not just open weights. They publish their training recipes and know-how along with the models they release.
Their NemoTron models are probably six months back behind the frontier models.
Which isn’t bad for 95% of AI tasks out there.
@agostini434
July 25, 2026 at 6:13 pm
Why the US must win everything? She is an arrogant and ignorant elite.
@TrollMeister_
July 25, 2026 at 8:22 pm
What is this chick talking about. She clearly doesn’t understand AI. There’s no “risk” in Chinese open weight models because they run locally, in a company’s or an individual’s own hardware. These models are just a bunch of numbers. They cannot phone home to China. If Chinese AI is subscribed to as a service where the servers are located in China, that’s a different story. But most US users will not be doing that. The models will be running in the US on American servers. There’s zero risk in that.
@TrollMeister_
July 25, 2026 at 8:26 pm
America has lost the commercial aspect of AI. That’s the unfortunate reality.
@TrollMeister_
July 25, 2026 at 8:33 pm
Jensen is just a pimp. He doesn’t care if the models are open or closed weight, American or Chinese, as long as they use his chips to train their models. He wants more AI. More model development, more usage. Thats it. His job is to pimp nvIDIa processors to whoever is open to buying and he will charge them the maximum he can get away with. He is the #1 reason companies are 100s of billions in debt because he can charge them whatever they want and they will pay. He is one of the “villains” of AI who plays nice guy.
@blackknight4996
July 25, 2026 at 8:49 pm
Don’t worry Karen, China has done you a great favor by decoupling from your 3rd world UNITED SNAKES.
You want to get people into a room to discuss? These people are UNEDUCATED M.O.R.O.N.S who can’t do grade school maths. You expect them to make decisions?
@wilson0347
July 25, 2026 at 10:12 pm
Indians can help!
@paulyi729
July 26, 2026 at 12:29 am
Keep on banning anything n everything n you will still lose the technology war convincingly. Don’t believe me? see ya in another 3 years. 😂
@yuxiangchan-pv1bk
July 26, 2026 at 1:22 am
this girl is so fucking hilarious it borderlines insanity. “we need to get american open weight models out” , well whos gonna do that? you? Its the equivalent of saying “we need to break the law of physics” , well who can do that?!?!?!?
is anthropic and closeAI going to release open weight models? Do you control these companies? No? then why are talking about that?
@ghplatt
July 26, 2026 at 2:54 am
hiring an asian face to narrate CIA talking points is diabolical, why does BloomCIA keep bringing on this CIA paid Institute rep of half Viet heritage to repeat her nonsense?! Bought and paid for our CIA..spreading sinophobia to MAKE MERICA GREAT AGEEN!
@kinchung749
July 26, 2026 at 11:14 am
Try prying OpenAI and Anthropic away from closed models. Trillions of market cap would be wiped out. They will lobby heavily to prevent that.
@donkeykong516
July 26, 2026 at 4:44 pm
Basically if US turns to open source AI, the US stock market would crash & US would go into recession. There’s so much wasted money and high valuations in US AI, now the US realizes it doesn’t have monopolies and can’t fleece consumers. Banning Chinese AI is a trap for US because the ” small yard high fence” the US wanted for China really was for itself
@johnwhoo6194
July 26, 2026 at 8:00 pm
She’s nuts 😂😂😂
@johnwhoo6194
July 26, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Chinese models are not security risks. They are financial risks to American AI monopoly, period. That’s why they are bad!😂😂😂
@MikeM-cb7xv
July 26, 2026 at 9:09 pm
The U.S. didn’t mind when China spent hundreds of billions of dollars buying U.S. debt for the past 20 years. Did the U.S. try to decouple from China buying their bonds. No, hypocrisy.