The CEO has previously stated that Chinese AI is quickly catching up to Western AI thanks to its embrace of the open source movement.
Delangue warned on the podcast that the strong concentration of top open source models coming from China is a “fairly new development and I’m a little worried about it to be honest,” he said. “It’s important that AI is distributed between all countries — that there isn’t one or two countries which are much stronger than the others.”
Hugging Face is the world’s biggest platform for AI models and a popular place for Chinese AI companies to showcase their latest LLMs. In fact, Hugging Face’s CTO announced this week that the default model on HuggingChat is Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, which was developed by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.