The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that on July 24, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang published an open letter titled "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" -- signed by 25 companies. The Globe's guest columnists George Athanassakos and Christian Dippel write that open-weight models are those which publicly release the enormous files of numbers that encode all the model has learned through training. Meta's Llama, France's Mistral and China's DeepSeek are examples. They are free, and can be downloaded and run on your own machines at zero cost. Proprietary models, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini, are closed-weight. They can only be rented on the vendor's servers, at the vendor's price. Washington has decided that the proprietary frontier is a strategic asset and has begun defending it as one, threatening sanctions against Moonshot and other Chinese labs. This episode puts the American artificial intelligence ecosystem in direct opposition to its own government. The Huang letter asks policy-makers not to conflate "legitimate model-development techniques" with misappropriation. The industry is telling Washington to stop protecting the very thing it has decided to protect.