Hugging Face CEO: companies are ditching rented AI for open source

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open-source AI is booming, with his platform — often described as a GitHub for AI — now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Companies share and download open models and datasets on the platform. Delangue says he repeatedly sees the same pattern: firms start by renting commercial AI but eventually move to open-source alternatives for greater control and independence.

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