- AI disrupts industries
- China leads technology race
- Robots, protests, breakthroughs mark transformative year ahead
Protests, Robots, and Global Shifts Ahead
Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, has unveiled six bold predictions for the AI landscape in 2025, signaling potential industry-wide disruptions. He anticipates the first major public protest against artificial intelligence, driven by growing concerns about technological impact on academia, art, and employment.
Delangue warns that AI advancements could dramatically reshape corporate valuations, potentially halving a major company’s market capitalization.
Global AI Race Heats Up
The tech leader forecasts China will take the lead in the AI race, primarily through open-source model developments. Chinese startups like 01.AI and Alibaba’s Qwen2 are making significant strides, topping performance leaderboards.
Delangue also predicts breakthrough innovations in biology and chemistry, echoing recent achievements like DeepMind’s protein structure predictions.
Tech’s Next Frontier: Robots and Economic Growth
Personal AI robots are set to enter the mass market, with Delangue expecting over 100,000 pre-orders in 2025. Companies such as Tesla and Physical Intelligence are actively developing robotic assistants.
Moreover, he anticipates substantial economic and employment growth from AI, projecting 15 million AI builders on the Hugging Face platform by year’s end, despite falling short of previous growth targets.
