Hugging Face CEO explains why companies have stopped renting their AI | TechCrunch0

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• July 11, 2026

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