"We could have built a closed platform and extracted value from AI. Instead we built a coordination layer. The model isn't the value. The ecosystem that coordinates around the model — that's the value. Open-source is coordination infrastructure."
Co-founded Hugging Face as an AI chatbot startup; pivoted it into the world's largest open-source AI model repository. The Transformers library became the universal coordination layer between AI researchers and production deployments, with over 500,000 models hosted and millions of daily downloads.