Analysis ·
Open AI models are becoming a strategic alternative to the industry's giants
Original title, in French: “Les modèles ouverts d’IA deviennent une alternative stratégique aux géants du secteur”
- Publication
- Alliancy (France)
- Author
- Tiago Gil
- Published on
- 2 September 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
At a round table at VivaTech, Danila Shtan (CTO of Nebius), Vladislav Tankov (Head of Technology at JetBrains) and Thomas Wolf (co-founder of Hugging Face) made the case for open AI models in the face of the industry's concentration among a few providers. According to Thomas Wolf, a company that depends on a single provider is exposed to that provider's commercial or geopolitical decisions, and he cited the case of a biotech start-up forced to turn to open source after restrictions imposed by its provider. The speakers recommend choosing the technology suited to each use and then customising it, with open source providing additional control over data and infrastructure. For Europe, Thomas Wolf calls for a broader ecosystem, including user companies and start-ups, beyond data centres alone.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Alliancy →Classification
- Country
- Worldwide scope
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms
- Companies
- Jetbrains (cited), Hugging Face (cited), Nebius (cited)
- Keywords
- open models, open source, digital sovereignty, vendor dependency, ai infrastructure, europe
Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Alliancy and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.