Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time on Friday, publicly advocating for frontier open AI models alongside closed models as a pillar of safety, innovation and national AI sovereignty, sharing a letter signed by Nvidia arguing open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. On Thursday, Huang described Chinese AI models as "excellent" and dismissed fears they threaten U.S. companies, saying the models broaden AI adoption and lift demand for Nvidia’s chips, data centers, and computing infrastructure, and urged Washington to drop "science fiction" fears about AI regulation. On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that Chinese AI firms could face sanctions for using "industrial-scale distillation attacks" that infringe on U.S. intellectual property, stating open-source AI should not be an "open season" on American IP. Huang has said distillation is a fundamental part of AI development and poses no threat to U.S. companies, arguing that learning from AI and other knowledge sources is essential to intelligence.