We referred back to it when Anthropic and OpenAI wanted to build a regulatory moat in September 2026:
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models. https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
— Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) July 24, 2026
At the time "The Trigger" referred to open models triggering the duopoly into the attempt to regulate-away any competition.
In hindsight, that tweet by Mr. Huang may have triggered much more than Altman/Amodei simply trying to influence/manipulate politicians and the administrative state. Our outro caught some, but not nearly enough, of what was going on:
This weekend's contretemps?
It's all about money, moats (or lack thereof), marketing and political power.
