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Hugging Face, the startup that has become the de facto GitHub for artificial intelligence, is positioning itself as a democratic alternative to Big Tech's proprietary AI models—offering researchers and companies a free platform to share, build on, and commercialize machine learning tools that rival those locked behind corporate walls. The move threatens to democratize AI development in ways that could reshape power dynamics in the tech industry, though it also raises thorny questions about who controls the data fueling these increasingly powerful systems. With major institutions from the Smithsonian to scrappy hardware makers uploading their models, Hugging Face is betting that openness, not secrecy, will define the next era of artificial intelligence.
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