VentureBeat March 19, 2025
In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage.
The AI platform company, which hosts more than 1.5 million public models across diverse domains, has submitted its recommendations for the White House AI Action Plan, arguing that recent breakthroughs in open-source models demonstrate they can match or exceed the capabilities of closed commercial systems at a fraction of the cost.
In its official submission, Hugging Face highlights recent achievements like OlympicCoder, which outperforms Claude 3.7 on complex coding tasks while using just 7 billion parameters, and AI2’s fully open OLMo 2 models that...