Hugging Face CEO: Open Source AI More Vital Than Ever

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open source AI is booming, with his platform now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. He argues companies increasingly shift from costly frontier APIs to open models as they scale, and warns that closed AI risks handing control to a handful of big corporations. Delangue also addressed Chinese labs dominating open model downloads in the U.S., Hugging Face turning down a large Nvidia investment, and why robotics makes open AI even more urgent given how deeply robots could enter personal home life.