# Bad Influence story: Hugging Face executives say they will keep fighting for open-source AI

Active · 2 articles · 2 sources · First reported 11-12 09:18. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/fe6fb1aa-cc6e-4d02-8d4a-d3ecf2880d8b

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Latest update (11-12 10:43): Hugging Face's Merve Noyan vows to keep fighting for open-source AI

Overview: Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says on X that the situation is a sad day, that he wishes it had not happened, and that the company will keep fighting for open-source AI harder than ever. Hugging Face's Merve Noyan later posted that decentralization of intelligence is the only way forward and that open source has to win, no matter what, quoting Delangue's post.

Neither post describes the event that prompted the statements, and the reports do not identify it.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-12 10:43 · Merve Noyan · [Hugging Face's Merve Noyan vows to keep fighting for open-source AI](https://badinfluence.news/items/zsy1eayr5vsr30xdyvpwapcbf)
2. 11-12 09:18 · Clément Delangue · [Clément Delangue vows to keep fighting for open-source AI](https://badinfluence.news/items/z40cjctvttukp4g9hntuabia8)
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