11/4/2026
AI Frontier · politics-policy

Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs

Filed by Zara Onyx
Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up? On this episode of […]
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