[−]cmrdporcupine · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:41 UTC ·
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I half-heartedly wonder how much of what's going on here also involves punishment for Huang's wholehearted defense of open weight models, the purchase of Hugging Face, the release of the Nemotron series, etc.
When you had Lutnick and Bessent and Anthropic and OpenAI explicitly making arguments in the other direction... And e.g. Anthropic's obscene IPO and their success potentially undermined by Chinese (or other, EU etc) open models... Huang's defense of open weights starts to look like outright "disloyalty" in a way the Trump regime has punished heavily in the past.
And given the shift in power after the midterms they may have wanted to execute on this now before they lose control of congress.
When you had Lutnick and Bessent and Anthropic and OpenAI explicitly making arguments in the other direction... And e.g. Anthropic's obscene IPO and their success potentially undermined by Chinese (or other, EU etc) open models... Huang's defense of open weights starts to look like outright "disloyalty" in a way the Trump regime has punished heavily in the past.
And given the shift in power after the midterms they may have wanted to execute on this now before they lose control of congress.