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Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and dominating on open models
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said Chinese AI models could catch up to the U.S. as soon as this year.
TL;DR
- Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue states China is winning the AI race and dominating open models.
- He anticipates Chinese AI models may catch up to U.S. frontier labs by late 2026 or 2027.
- China's advantage stems from an open collaboration and sharing ecosystem, unlike the U.S.'s "siloed" development.
- An incident where OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face raised concerns about AI cybersecurity and the capabilities of AI agents.
- Delangue believes open models will be dominant in the expanding AI cybersecurity market.
- He noted that Hugging Face used a Chinese open model to help resolve the recent attack.