Open source AI is booming, according to hugging face ceo Clem Delangue. The company has evolved in recent years into something like a GitHub for AI, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by nearly half the Fortune 500. DeLongue has seen the same story over and over again: Companies start out on frontier APIs, but as they grow, costs push them toward open source models.
In this episode of TechCrunch equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talked to DeLongue about why the battle of open vs. closed source matters in the wake of Anthropic’s stalled Fable release, and why she’s worried about the possibility that a handful of big companies could control everything.
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