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September 3, 2026

Base10 Bets on Hundreds of Millions of AI Models

Base10 is betting that the number of AI models will grow from the roughly five million models believed to be trained on Hugging Face to hundreds of millions.

The forecast envisions a mix of powerful closed-source frontier models and a much larger number of open or specialized models—possibly one model per person, or even dozens per person. It remains uncertain whether that future will bring one model for each person or several.

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