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

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

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

Muhammad Zohaib Khan, Chairman, P@sha (Pakistan IT Industry Association)

Nazarius Kilama, President, Internet Society – Tanzania 

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

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

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

Byung-Tak Zhang, Director, AI Institute of Seoul National University (AIIS)





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