Hugging Face CEO: LLM APIs aren't the best AI approach for 90% of real-world use cases
multiply_matrix · x · 2026-09-22
Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue argues LLM APIs are far from optimal for 90% of real-world AI use cases — too overkill, slow, expensive, and hard to control — a gap he expects to surface as AI matures. The thread stems from ex-OpenAI's Will Depue reflecting on his Jev: a zero-shot classifier with frontier-ish intelligence, prompting the question of which other classic ML ideas deserve rescuing.
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