Open source AI is on the rise, according to Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. The company has become something of a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI creators can share and download open models and datasets, which are now used by about half of Fortune 500 companies. Delangue has seen the same story over and over again: Companies start with cutting-edge APIs, but as they scale, costs push them toward open source models.

In this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Delangue about why the fight between open and closed source is important in the wake of Anthropic’s stalled release of Fable, and why she’s worried about the possibility that a handful of big companies could end up controlling everything.

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