Hugging Face launches open-source version of ChatGPT in bid to challenge dominance of closed-source models | VentureBeat

Hugging Face, which has emerged in the past year as a leading voice for open-source AI development, announced today that it has launched an open-source alternative to ChatGPT called HuggingChat.HuggingChat is essentially a user interface that allows people to interact with an open-source chat assistant dubbed Open Assistant, which was organized by LAION, the nonprofit that created the data set that trained Stable Diffusion. HuggingChat will soon allow users the ability to plug in the new chat models, similar to other AI chatbot clients such as Poe.

Source: Hugging Face launches open-source version of ChatGPT in bid to challenge dominance of closed-source models | VentureBeat