China Leads the Open-Model AI Race, Hugging Face CEO Says

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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says China is winning the AI race with open-weight models and could catch up to U.S. frontier labs by year-end 2026 or 2027, driven by China's open-collaboration ecosystem; he notes the OpenAI agent hack on Hugging Face as a cybersecurity concern and argues open models may dominate as token costs rise, while maintaining a cooperative stance with OpenAI.
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