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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Faces Clem Delangue

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Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI, where builders can share and download open models and datasets, and it is now used by…

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Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI, where builders can share and download open models and datasets, and it is now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.

Delangue said he has seen the same pattern repeat across companies, which often start out renting AI capabilities before eventually building and owning more of their own AI infrastructure.