Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs

On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Irene Solaiman, Chief Policy Officer and SVP of Strategy at Hugging Face, about what startups need to know before building on open models, from choosing tools and infrastructure to navigating trade-offs in open AI. The episode covers why startups, enterprises and governments are switching to open models to cut costs, who makes money when models are free to use, why the U.S. may need deep-pocketed players like Nvidia to build an open frontier model that can compete with China's, and how recent attacks on open AI platforms raise questions about keeping an open ecosystem secure.