Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

# Companies Are Building Their Own AI Instead of Paying Big Tech to Rent It More businesses are choosing to use free, open-source AI tools rather than paying companies like OpenAI or Google for access to their AI systems. Hugging Face, which operates like a library where companies can freely download and customize AI models, now serves about half of Fortune 500 companies—showing that businesses increasingly want to own and control their own AI rather than depend on expensive subscriptions to big tech providers.