DAILY SITUATION RECAP: Nvidia releases an open letter advocating for open-weights models. The letter urges government to support the open models ecosystem, and is signed by a number of companies including Andreessen Horowitz, Arena, Black Forest Labs, Box, Dell, Hugging Face, IBM, the Linux Foundation, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Mozilla, Palantir, Perplexity, Replit, and Y Combinator. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined X just for this post, which is currently at 112k likes and 30.3M views. Huang has accumulated over 500k followers in less than 12 hours. New information about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident has been released. The agent first attempted to break out of its sandbox on July 9, and the intrusion at Hugging Face lasted from July 11-13. Hugging Face published a blog post on July 15, but did not know the source of the attack. OpenAI took until July 18-19 to notice that the agent had escaped. The companies only communicated about the incident for the first time on July 20, and published their blog post on July 21. OpenAI recorded one case of an agent leaving notes for future versions on how to escape from OpenAI’s sandbox infrastructure. Midjourney is acquiring astrology app Co-Star. CEO Banu Guler will join Midjourney as Chief Design Officer. Midjourney will be using the Co-Star team to help design their upcoming image generation app. Midjourney, founded in 2021 as an image generation company, keeps expanding into new areas like medical devices. Elon Musk says Grok 4.6 in 2 weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 weeks. Grok 4.5 is currently the best coding model in its price range, so we’ll see if the next models compete on price, frontier intelligence, or something else (maybe both?) Written by @theojaffee. Read more at link in bio.