Hugging Face Policy Chief on Costs and Risks of Open Source AI
Open source AI models are gaining ground as businesses, governments and startups turn to them for lower costs, more control and flexibility. Hugging Face's policy chief discusses the trade-offs. A key question is how companies can still earn money when powerful models are freely available to everyone.
Quick glossaryHugging Face, open source, trade-offs
- Hugging Face
- An AI company best known for its website and platform where developers share, find and test open-source AI models, based in New York and Paris.
- open source
- Software or AI models whose underlying code or design is shared publicly so anyone can use, study or change them.
- trade-offs
- Compromises where gaining one benefit means accepting some drawback or cost in return, so choices have downsides.
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