{"id":579919,"date":"2026-07-11T06:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/579919\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T06:02:22","slug":"hugging-faces-ceo-on-why-companies-are-done-renting-their-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/579919\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging Face&#8217;s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Open source AI is booming, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hugging Face<\/a>\u00a0CEO\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/clementdelangue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Clem Delangue<\/a>. 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Rebecca Bellan talked to\u00a0Delangue\u00a0about why the open vs closed source fight matters\u00a0in the wake of\u00a0Anthropic\u2019s\u00a0halted Fable release,\u00a0and why\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0worried about the possibility that a handful of big companies could end up controlling everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you purchase through links in our articles, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/techcrunch-affiliate-monetization-standards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open source AI is booming, according to\u00a0Hugging Face\u00a0CEO\u00a0Clem Delangue. 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