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China Leading Open-Weight AI Race, Says Delangue
China will likely catch U.S. frontier labs by 2027. Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, attributes this momentum to the rapid proliferation of open-weight models. These public parameters allow developers to iterate faster than closed-system competitors. This shift forces American labs to rethink their proprietary moats as open-source parity nears.