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Clement Delangue argues the AI industry faces a choice between centralized closed APIs and decentralized open-source models

Closed systems risk concentrating power in Silicon Valley and Washington.

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clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

There is no inevitability in AI. We all have agency in what comes next:

Path 1: closed-source APIs, concentration of power, and a future decided by a handful of people in Silicon Valley and DC

Path 2: open-source AI, where everyone gets to participate, own, and build together, including orgs like the city of Rio.

Pick your path anon!

SemiAnalysis@SemiAnalysis_

SITUATION DETECTED: The city of Rio de Janerio has post-trained a model.

Based on Qwen 7/2, Rio 3.5 Open 397B adds SwiReasoning on top of the base Qwen model — a framework that dynamically switches between standard chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning, guided by entropy-based confidence signals, so the model only "thinks out loud" when it needs to and otherwise reasons silently in hidden space for better token efficiency.

6:00 PM · Jun 13, 2026 · 75.7K Views

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Many users advocated pursuing the open-source path over closed APIs to avoid dependency on Silicon Valley providers, while others rejected the framing as a false dichotomy that overlooks power concentration and geopolitical risks.

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David Hendrickson@TeksEdge

@ClementDelangue Clem you’re part of that second path! Keep posting things like this. https://huggingface.co/hardware

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Martin Høst Normark@MartinHN

@ClementDelangue SETI at Home like mobilisation needed. Let’s pile GPUs of the people together.

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Kevin@kevincodex

@ClementDelangue lets go with Path 2 anon

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clem 🤗@ClementDelangue

There is no inevitability in AI. We all have agency in what comes next:

Path 1: closed-source APIs, concentration of power, and a future decided by a handful of people in Silicon Valley and DC

Path 2: open-source AI, where everyone gets to participate, own, and build together, including orgs like the city of Rio.

Pick your path anon!

SemiAnalysis@SemiAnalysis_

SITUATION DETECTED: The city of Rio de Janerio has post-trained a model.

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Tuck@tasteandfeelai

@fireobserver32 @ClementDelangue So was the Nazi army and so was the Russian army in 2022, just as unstoppable…

I’ve had enough here; have a nice day. ✌🏽

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Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ@ivanfioravanti

@ClementDelangue @LLMJunky Path 2! Clem keep helping us to stay focused on it 🙏

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Ahmad@TheAhmadOsman

@ClementDelangue Yup

https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2

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Lunari@0x_lun

@ClementDelangue the city of rio de janeiro shipping a 397b open model on hugging face is a better argument for path 2 than any manifesto

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Emircan ERKUL@EmircanErkulX

@ClementDelangue Sure, Its kinda inevitable. I can run gemma4 models in my 6800xt and it really help me code faster. Do i need anything else? But of course i do not use my hardware, i use better cloud models. But if they block it, i have a place to return. AI assisted coding is a inevitable way

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Tuck@tasteandfeelai

@ClementDelangue It’s a cute thought but this is ultimately a false dichotomy that turns a blind eye to hard power realities beyond the United States.

The Chinese government is poised to launch an aggressive war of conquest next year.

Denying them our best capabilities preserves American life.

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neekhil vatsa@garfieldII

@ClementDelangue @huggingface What are the chances that the USA policies might come for the opensource community too? But till that happens, Here is a curated set of resources

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Ferbin@Ferbin08

@ClementDelangue We burned months tuning open models before switching to closed APIs. Most teams don't choose based on ideology. They pick based on how much time and capital they can afford to spend on infrastructure.

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dan ryan@fireobserver32

@tasteandfeelai @ClementDelangue https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/1tz1zem/why_is_the_contemporary_kmt_so_proccp/

Like ican also point out taiwan cannot build an effective military and that the usa no longer has the anti air and abm missiles left to defend Taiwan due to the iran war and ukraine. China just has to wait

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Ricardo Kupfer@RHKupfer

@ClementDelangue Me enche de orgulho ver a iniciativa no Brasil. Aqui temos grande potencial humano, para além do imenso potencial energético.

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dan ryan@fireobserver32

@tasteandfeelai @ClementDelangue How? No one has the firepower. Secondly as I have stated China does not want to burn down Taiwan . Look the usa cannot even defeat Iran I highly doubt the usa can defeat china.

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Tuck@tasteandfeelai

@fireobserver32 @ClementDelangue I would be equally delighted to see Taiwan make a self-determination to reunify with mainland China. If they make that choice for themselves, so be it. But if the communist Chinese begin killing, the world should aid the innocent Taiwanese to defend their freedom and sovereignty.

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dan ryan@fireobserver32

@tasteandfeelai @ClementDelangue No there is not . The 2027 date was used as a hypothetical date by us war strategist .

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dan ryan@fireobserver32

@tasteandfeelai @ClementDelangue There is no need to invade when taiwans ceos are making the economic case to rejoin

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tech/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-warns-china-going-win-ai-race-against-america-report.amp

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Tuck@tasteandfeelai

@fireobserver32 @ClementDelangue Wait for what… wait so that they can conquer Taiwan later?

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Tuck@tasteandfeelai

@fireobserver32 @ClementDelangue It is an US IC assessment, akin to the assessment in November 2021 when the USA correctly and boldly vocalized that Putin and Russia had irreversibly decided to launch total war on Ukraine. And of course the US IC was right.

China 2027 isn’t a decision, but a “be ready by” date.

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