SMRTR AIJul 12, 2026TechCrunch

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

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Open source AI is booming, and Hugging Face — often called the GitHub for AI — is at the center of it. CEO Clem Delangue says companies typically start by paying for access to big AI systems, but as costs grow, they shift to open source models instead. Now used by roughly half the Fortune 500, Delangue warns against a few powerful companies controlling all of AI.

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