Hugging Face reports approximately half of Fortune 500 now using open-source AI models

According to TechCrunch's interview with Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, roughly half of Fortune 500 companies now use open-source AI models accessed through the Hugging Face platform. Delangue cited a repeated pattern where enterprises move away from frontier APIs due to scaling costs, and expressed concern that "a handful of big companies could end up controlling everything" in the AI market, reinforcing the open versus closed-source debate.