Where public figures stand on Open vs. Closed AI
8 people have a position on record here, ordered from the most liberal to the most conservative overall rating. The position is an editorial reading; the statements it rests on are on each profile.
Co-founder & CEO, Palantir
Open weights against frontier-lab rent-seeking
Allied with NVIDIA's open-weight push while accusing closed labs of overcharging for "tokens that create no value" and endangering national security.
observed 2026-06-29 – 2026-07-01
CEO, Google DeepMind; Nobel laureate
Responsible scaling of frontier models
DeepMind balances open science heritage with controlled deployment of powerful models.
observed 2025-12-01 – 2025-12-01
Founder & CEO, Meta
Open source evangelist — with a superintelligence exception
The 2024 manifesto said open source prevents power concentration; by 2025-26, Meta's most powerful models were exactly what he chose not to share.
observed 2024-07-23 – 2025-07-30
Co-founder and CEO, Tencent
Closed ecosystem AI over platform openness
Tencent opposes rivals' screen-access models (Doubao) while building proprietary AI inside super-apps.
observed 2025-01-26 – 2025-01-26
Founder, DeepSeek
Open weights as cultural and strategic choice
Liang frames open-source as soft power even as DeepSeek triggers US security panic.
observed 2024-07-01 – 2024-07-01
President of the French Republic
Invest in European AI champions; avoid blind over-regulation
Davos and AI Summit speeches prioritise investment in AI, quantum and cleantech while warning Europe against regulation-first thinking.
observed 2026-01-21 – 2026-02-18
Executive Chairman, Samsung Electronics (Jay Y. Lee)
Positions Samsung as infrastructure for "safe and enriching" AI via chips, devices, and cross-border ecosystems rather than model ideology
open/closed debates are secondary to manufacturing capacity.
observed 2025-07-28 – 2026-07-24
Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
Open-weight models are essential to US leadership
Joined X in July 2026 solely to promote an industry open letter framing open-weight AI as the successor to the open-source software movement.
observed 2026-07-22 – 2026-07-24
