On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said
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