# Factory AI — Factory Joins Open Weights and American AI Leadership

- Company: Factory AI (factory.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-04
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://factory.com/news/open-weights-american-ai-leadership
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17864-factory-joins-open-weights-and-american-ai-leadership
- Subject: Droid

Factory has signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter , alongside Microsoft, NVIDIA, and 230 other organizations. We have always built for an open ecosystem: model independence, deployment tuned to our customer controls, and open weight security models. Why we signed At Factory, we are committed to ushering in the future of AI through building a strong, open ecosystem. US leadership in AI depends on an open ecosystem that reaches every sector. Concentrating AI behind a few closed models creates single points of failure and narrows competition. Engineering teams should choose their own models, run them where their requirements demand, and keep what they build. Open source commitment Factory is model-agnostic, offering open source providers including, but not limited to, NVIDIA and Moonshot, and closed source providers. Factory helped define AGENTS.md with OpenAI, Google, and Sourcegraph: one open file any agent can read, instead of a patchwork of vendor-specific formats. These efforts are a small subset of our work and the beginning of our commitment to grow the open ecosystem. Security in the open …

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