Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and dominating on open models
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is winning the artificial intelligence race with open-weight models and could catch up to U.S. model makers...
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- Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is winning the artificial intelligence race with open-weight models and could catch up to U.S.
- model makers as soon as this year.
- Fueling this revolution is the open collaboration and sharing ecosystem in China, while model makers in the U.S.
- Delangue, a proponent of open-source models, blamed engineering mistakes for the recent attack on Hugging Face and said his company used a Nvidia version of a Chinese open model to resolve the attack.
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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is winning the artificial intelligence race with open-weight models and could catch up to U.S. model makers as soon as this year. Fueling this revolution is the open collaboration and sharing ecosystem in China, while model makers in the U.S. Delangue, a proponent of open-source models, blamed engineering mistakes for the recent attack on Hugging Face and said his company used a Nvidia version of a Chinese open model to resolve the attack. and in the world," Delangue said. "In this market, probably open models will be kings." Delangue said the company maintains a "healthy collaboration" with OpenAI and called the frontier lab "good partners" before and after the incident.