AnalysisBusinessJuly 14, 2026

The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier

Open-weight models now dominate Hugging Face downloads (41% from China) and are absorbing most production AI traffic, per Vercel data. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues enterprise workloads are shifting to cheaper, customizable open models.

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