Megaport Signs Open Weights and American AI Leadership Letter
Megaport has signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, supporting open-weight AI, customer choice, and the infrastructure that powers AI innovation.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organizations build, deploy, and scale digital infrastructure. As AI adoption accelerates, the conversation is evolving beyond model performance alone to the broader ecosystem needed to support long-term innovation.
That’s why Megaport has joined more than 230 technology companies, researchers, and industry organizations in signing the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter.
The letter advocates for policies that support open-weight AI models, healthy competition, and continued investment in the infrastructure that powers AI. It argues that AI leadership won’t be defined by a single frontier model, but by creating an open ecosystem where businesses, researchers, developers, and public institutions have the freedom to innovate and deploy AI in the ways that best meet their needs.
While the initiative focuses on American AI leadership, the principles outlined in the letter resonate globally as organizations look to adopt AI at scale.
Read the full Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter here.
Infrastructure is part of the AI conversation
At Megaport, these principles closely align with how we think about infrastructure.
Every AI application depends on more than the model itself. It relies on infrastructure at every layer to move data efficiently, securely, and reliably. As organizations deploy AI across multiple cloud providers, dedicated infrastructure, edge environments, and geographic regions, the underlying infrastructure becomes just as important as the models powering the applications.
We’re seeing organizations build increasingly distributed AI environments. Data may be stored in one location, compute provisioned in another, and applications accessed from users around the world. AI workloads rarely exist in isolation, and supporting them requires infrastructure that can connect these environments quickly and simply.
That is why software-defined infrastructure plays such an important role.
Organizations need the flexibility to provision infrastructure where they need it, connect it privately, and adapt as requirements evolve. They also need the freedom to choose the technologies that best fit their business rather than being constrained by a single architecture or operating model.
By combining Megaport’s automated networking platform with Latitude.sh’s on-demand bare metal compute, we’re helping organizations build AI infrastructure that is scalable, adaptable, and designed for the next generation of AI workloads.
Supporting customer choice and innovation
Another key theme throughout the letter is customer choice.
Open-weight models encourage competition by enabling more organizations to develop, refine, and deploy AI. That competition extends beyond model developers to cloud providers, infrastructure platforms, application developers, and service providers, helping drive innovation while giving customers greater control over how they adopt AI.
Customer choice has always been central to Megaport’s approach.
Organizations have different technical, operational, and regulatory requirements, and no single deployment model will suit every workload. As AI continues to evolve, businesses will increasingly combine different models, cloud providers, dedicated compute, and storage platforms to achieve the right balance of performance, resilience, governance, and cost.
Infrastructure should support that flexibility, not limit it.
The letter also recognizes that openness comes with responsibility. Open-weight models introduce important considerations around security and governance because models can be modified and redistributed once released. However, the letter argues these challenges should be addressed through collaboration, transparency, evaluation, and responsible innovation rather than limiting access to technologies that can drive broader progress.
Just as open-source software benefited from continuous review and improvement by a global community, open-weight AI allows researchers and developers to evaluate models, identify vulnerabilities, improve safeguards, and strengthen AI systems over time. Transparency can play an important role in building more secure and resilient AI ecosystems.
Why we signed
“One of the things that resonates most with me about this letter is the recognition that AI leadership isn’t just about building larger models. It’s about creating an ecosystem where organizations have genuine choice in how they develop and deploy AI,” said Cam Daniel, Chief Technology Officer at Megaport.
“As AI adoption accelerates, customers need flexibility, not only in the models they choose, but in where those workloads run and how they connect compute, networking, and storage. We’re already seeing organizations build increasingly distributed AI environments, and that makes infrastructure a critical part of the conversation.
“At Megaport, we’ve always believed infrastructure should adapt to customers, not the other way around. Open ecosystems encourage innovation because they give organizations more choice, reduce unnecessary complexity, and allow them to build AI environments that meet their own technical, operational, and regulatory requirements.
“Together with Latitude.sh, we’re focused on providing the automated infrastructure that helps customers deploy and scale AI wherever it makes the most sense. Supporting the principles outlined in this letter reflects that commitment.”
By signing the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, Megaport is supporting an AI ecosystem built on openness, innovation, healthy competition, and customer choice.
As AI continues to evolve, success won’t depend solely on advances in model development. It will also depend on the infrastructure that enables organizations to deploy those models efficiently, securely, and at scale. We believe open ecosystems, combined with software-defined infrastructure, will help organizations unlock the full potential of AI while maintaining the flexibility to adapt as the technology continues to evolve.
We’re proud to stand alongside organizations across the AI ecosystem in supporting these principles, and we look forward to helping customers build the next generation of AI infrastructure through automated compute, networking, and storage, delivered globally, securely, and on demand.
