Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC that Chinese developers now account for 41% of AI model downloads on the platform, the largest share globally, as China gains ground in open-source AI development. The announcement comes amid a broader debate about U.S.-China AI competition and prompted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to call for reduced U.S. regulatory barriers on open-source AI.
AI pioneer and AMI Labs founder Yann LeCun told CNBC that Elon Musk's xAI is a 'failure' unable to compete at the AI frontier, while warning that AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' as investor subsidies cannot continue indefinitely.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told CNBC that concerns about an artificial intelligence bubble are unfounded, arguing that the substantial investments being made in AI will ultimately advance the technology regardless of short-term market dynamics.
Warren Buffett, who has long warned about the dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation, said on CNBC's Squawk Box that Iran acquiring nuclear weapons would significantly raise the risk of nuclear conflict, identifying unstable leaders facing personal or political pressure as the greatest danger and predicting nuclear weapons will likely be used within the next 100 to 200 years.
