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More people should work on harnesses for open and local models!
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue advocates for more developers and researchers to focus on building evaluation harnesses and testing frameworks specifically designed for open-source an
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Delangue advocates for more developers and researchers to focus on building evaluation harnesses and testing frameworks specifically designed for open-source and locally-run AI models. He likely argues that robust evaluation infrastructure is crucial for the open AI ecosystem to advance and compete effectively with closed, proprietary systems. This reflects a broader push within the open-source AI community to improve tooling, benchmarking, and assessment methodologies for models that run outside of centralized API environments.
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Source: Clem Delangue (X) | 2026-04-15