Hugging Face responds to White House AI Action Plan RFI — advocates open models and open science

AI Impact Summary

Hugging Face submitted a policy response to the White House AI Action Plan RFI, framing open AI systems and open science as foundational to performance, broad adoption, and security. The post highlights three recommendations: support for openness, efficiency through smaller models and edge deployment, and security via transparent, open-weight systems and traceability. It cites open, competitive examples—OlympicCoder beating Claude 3.7 on complex coding tasks and AI2's OLMo 2 models—to argue for open architectures and the feasibility of air-gapped deployments.