The Last Man Defending 'Open' AI Just Left The Building: How Jensen's Fall Clears The Way For A Federal Crackdown...

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The Last Man Defending 'Open' AI Just Left The Building: How Jensen's Fall Clears The Way For A Federal Crackdown... Four months ago, Jensen Huang was the most powerful voice in…

This morning he resigned as Nvidia's CEO, and he gave up his board seat too. A few hours earlier, The Information reported that Alice Huang (no relation), the former Megaspeed executive whom US intelligence believes was recruited by Beijing, had promised Nvidia chips to DeepSeek, the Chinese lab whose open-weight models have been eating American lunch (and tokens) all year.

Back in September we laid out the motive in "Here Lies The Motive: AI Leaders' Cunning Plan Exposed": terrify the public, demand emergency regulation, make compliance expensive, crush the competitors, consolidate. What that playbook was missing was a villain the public could actually picture. It now has one, and the villain sits squarely between Nvidia's chips, a Chinese spy and DeepSeek's open weights.

So, a thought experiment, with the same caveat we gave in September: the facts are real, the conclusion is interpretation. Nobody needed to plan the Jensen scandal for it to work as if it had been planned. And the way it works is by making a federal restriction on open models far easier to pass.

Rewind to July. After Moonshot's Kimi K3 sparked another "DeepSeek moment" for US AI stocks, the administration started weighing restrictions on Chinese open models. Huang responded by organizing the opposition. On July 24, 25 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mistral and Hugging Face published "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," and Huang used his first-ever X post to amplify it. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google did not sign.

Four days later he was on Capitol Hill, meeting lawmakers and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, then telling reporters that "for the American industry, we need open weight for security, we need open weight for safety." Nvidia launched an industry coalition (the Open Secure AI Alliance) and kept shipping its own open Nemotron models. Washington blinked: the August 4 White House testing framework exempted open-weight models entirely.

That defender now has no role at…

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