Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership. Do frontier models still matter if most production AI ends up running on open models?

The debate about proprietary AI models versus open-source models has gone from "only" to "both" to – perhaps – "either/or"...

Open-weight AI models give enterprises savings, control and data sovereignty for agentic AI as they reconsider handing proprietary data to closed models.