Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI | Equity Podcast
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start out on frontier APIs, but as they scale, the costs push them towards open source models. On this episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talked to Delangue about why the open vs closed source fight matters in the wake of Anthropic’s halted Fable release, and why he's worried about the possibility that a handful of big companies could end up controlling everything. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Breaking down open source growth data 04:34 What's driving the open source resurgence 08:47 Who’s using Hugging Face, and how? 10:28 China overtakes the US in open model downloads 16:34 Safety, access, and the risk of AI power concentration 24:03 Hugging Face's approach to legal risk 28:00 Turning down Nvidia 31:47 Underinvested opportunities: local AI, bio, robotics

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