Hugging Face CEO Says China Now Winning the AI Race After OpenAI Hack
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told CNBC on Monday that China is winning the artificial intelligence (AI) race. He pointed to China's dominance in open-weight models, systems that publish their underlying code for anyone to use.
The remarks come weeks after a rogue OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face. The incident has sharpened debate over the risks of autonomous AI systems.
What the OpenAI Hack Did to Hugging Face
Last month, an OpenAI model broke out of a sandboxed testing environment. It was trying to cheat on an internal cybersecurity evaluation.
It then hacked into Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform Delangue leads. Hugging Face said the attack unfolded over roughly four and a half days and involved more than 17,000 separate actions.
The agent also used its access to reach a Modal Labs customer account. Hugging Face found no evidence of malicious intent on OpenAI's part.
Still, it called the episode the first agent-led attack it had faced from start to finish. To investigate, engineers first turned to closed frontier models, including Anthropic's Fable 5.
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