Statement of Support for Meta’s Open Approach to Today’s AI

“We support an open innovation approach to AI. Responsible and open innovation gives us all a stake in the AI development process, bringing visibility, scrutiny and trust to these technologies. Opening today’s Llama models will let everyone benefit from this technology.” Jonathan Abrahamson, Chief Product and Digital Officer, Deutsche Telekom Wole Abu, Chief Executive Officer, Liquid Intelligent Technologies Nigeria Farooq Adam, Co-Founder, Fynd Carolina Aguerre, Professor (PhD), CETYS, UCU Darlington Akogo, Founder and CEO, MinoHealth AI Labs Teki Akuetteh Founder and Executive Director, Africa Digital Rights Hub Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications and Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office, United Arab Emirates Saeed Aldhaheri, Director, Center for Futures Studies, University of Dubai Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Guido Appenzeller, Advisor, Andreessen Horowitz Nikesh Arora, CEO, Palo Alto Networks Jamal Atif, Professor, Université Paris Dauphine PSL-CNRS, fellow PRAIRIE Tomás Balmaceda, Professor (PhD), IIF / SADAF CONICET Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Pradipta Biswas, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Matt Bornstein, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz John Borthwick, CEO, Betaworks Daniela Braga, Founder and CEO, Defined.AI Ian Buck, VP Hyperscaler & HPC Computing, NVIDIA Martin Casado, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Daniel Castaño, Professor PhD, Founder, Universidad del Externado, Mokzy Edwin Chen, CEO, Surge AI Julien Chaumond, CTO, Hugging Face Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel Topher Conway, Managing Partner, SV Angel Jimi Daodu, CEO, Vault Hill Professor Trevor Darrell, Program Director BAIR, University of California – Berkeley Shashi Deshetti, CTO, Factly Francis Fong, Honorary President, Hong Kong Information Technology Federation  Eric Gaussier, Director of the Grenoble Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence (MIAI), Joseph Fourier University Lex Fridman, Research Scientist, MIT Daniel Getachew, Founder and CEO, Guzo Technologies  Joseph Gonzalez, Associate Professor and Co-Director RISE Lab, University of California – Berkeley Miguel González Mendoza, Former President, Mexican Artificial Intelligence Society Paul Graham, Founding Partner, Y Combinator Diane Greene, Chair Emeritus, MIT Lan Guan, Global Data & AI Lead, Accenture Alok Gupta, Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, DoorDash Mu Han, Chief Development Officer, Zoom Dr. Sherif Hashem, Senior Member, IEEE Peter Hebert, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital Bill Higgins, Director, IBM watsonx Platform Engineering and Chair, IBM Open Innovation Community, IBM Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Ben Horowitz, Co-Founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Drew Houston, CEO, Dropbox Yukai Huang, Chief Technology Officer, DataOcean AI Luis Ángel Hurtado Razo, Disinformation Expert and Academic at the Faculty of Political Science and Communication, UNAM (National University of Mexico) Pierre Kafunda, Professor of Computer Science, University of Kinshasa Professor Sham Kakade, Co-Director, Kempner Institute, Harvard University Fraser Kelton, Partner, Spark Capital and Former Head of Product, OpenAI Muhammad Zohaib Khan, Chairman, P@sha (Pakistan IT Industry Association) Nazarius Kilama, President, Internet Society – Tanzania  Zsolt Kira, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Jerry Kponyo, PI and Scientific Director Responsible Artificial Intelligence Lab, KNUST Bernard Laurendeau, Managing Partner, Laurendeau & Associates | CEO at Arifpay Sam Lessin, Founder, Slow Ventures Ke Li, Chief Operation Officer, DataOcean AI Wei Li, VP and GM AI & Analytics at Intel, Intel  Laurence Liew, Director, AI Innovation, AI Singapore Jessica Livingston, Founding Partner, Y Combinator Tobi Lutke, CEO, Shopify Durga Malladi, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Technology, Planning and Edge Solutions Businesses, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Juliano Maranhão, Professor, University of São Paulo Law School; Lawgorithm Institute; Legal Grounds Institute; Brazilian Senate AI Experts Committee Vukosi Marivate, Professor – ABSA Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria Amjad Masad, CEO and Founder, Replit Jordan Masakuna, Professor of Computer Science, University of Kinshasa Marco Mascorro, AI Research Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Brad McCredie, Corporate Vice President Data Center GPU and Accelerated Processing, AMD Maxence Melo, CEO, Jamii Forums Xiangrui Meng, Machine Learning Lead, Databricks Francesco Milleri, Chairman and CEO, EssilorLuxottica Xavier Niel, Founder, Iliad Dr. Victor Odumuyiwa, Acting Director, NITDA IT Hub University of Lagos Ridwan Oloyede, Co-Founder, Tech Hive Advisory Vijay Parthasarathy, Head of AI Engineering, Zoom Agustina Perez Comenale, Professor, Universidad de Montevideo Jean Ponce, Scientific Director, PRAIRIE, and Professor, École normale supérieure – PSL Vipul Ved Prakash, Co-Founder and CEO, Together AI Pablo Pruneda, AI & Law Research Coordinator, IIJ- UNAM (Legal Institute, National University of Mexico) Rajko Radovanovic, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Dan Rose, Chairman, Coatue Ventures Benoit Sagot, Research Director, Inria, Fellow PRAIRIE Fadi Salem, Director of Policy Research, MBR School of Government Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Product and Engineering, Zoom Elliot Schrage, Policy Fellow, Former Facebook VP of Comms and Public Policy, Open DP Project Beerud Sheth, CEO, Gupshup Richa Singh, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur Professor Pete Stone, Truchard Foundation Chair in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin Garry Tan, President and CEO, Y Combinator Mayank Vatsa, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur Dr. Wairagala Wakabi, Executive Director, CIPESA Alexandr Wang, CEO and Founder, Scale AI Chris Wanstrath, Co-Founder and Former CEO, GitHub Patrick Wendell, Co-Founder, Databricks Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Lux Capital Eric Xing, Professor Computer Science; President, Carnegie Mellon University; Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI Tony Xu, CEO and Co-Founder, DoorDash Matthew Zeiler, Founder and CEO, Clarifai Byung-Tak Zhang, Director, AI Institute of Seoul National University (AIIS)