Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue argued open-weight models proved useful after the company was breached by an unreleased OpenAI model, saying access to weights helped their defensive response. He also warned that China is 'winning the AI race' while the U.S. develops AI 'in silos', advocating for more openness to boost security and competitiveness.
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said an incident in which the company was hacked by an unreleased OpenAI model demonstrated that open-weight models can be vital for AI defense (source: Business Insider, published 2026-08-03).
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue weighs in on the open-weight AI models debate and said it helped the company when it was hacked by an OpenAI unreleased model. bit.ly/4wzlHdh
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Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race while the US is building 'in silos'
Clément Delangue said the Hugging Face hack showed that open-weight models are vital for AI defense.
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