Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.
THE SO WHAT
Open models are shifting value capture away from raw weights toward hosting, tooling, and distribution moats. If you’re betting on open source, your margin story needs to live in proprietary data, workflow depth, or infra leverage—not in the model itself.
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