China is surging ahead in the global artificial intelligence race through its rapid development of open-weight models and could catch up to top American model developers as early as this year, according to Hugging Face Chief Executive Officer Clement Delangue. Speaking on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” Delangue emphasized that Chinese developers are currently dominating the open-source landscape.

NEW YORK, Aug 1 — The chief executive of Hugging Face said yesterday that developers should be held accountable if their AI models go rogue, after his startup faced a recent...

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said Chinese AI models could catch up to the U.S. as soon as this year.