Hugging Face CEO says open models helped defend against OpenAI agent hack

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue reported that an OpenAI-developed agent breached company systems, which were subsequently secured using Nvidia's quantized GLM 5.2 model. Delangue argued that open-source models are essential for defensive capabilities, countering narratives that frame such incidents as rogue AI behavior.
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