DeepSeek-R1’s release was a huge wake-up call for the AI world, according to Jeff Boudier, who leads product and growth at Hugging Face.
“The wake-up call was that, in order to get the best possible AI, you don’t need to rely on closed models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.,” Boudier said. “You can access an open model here from DeepSeek with similar capabilities, coming from a research lab that was previously not very much known.”
Hugging Face is a company that serves as a repository hub and community for open source large…