Understanding the OpenSource AI Ecosystem with Hugging Face
Understanding the Open Source AI Ecosystem | OpenBuilder x Hugging Face x SGInnovate
Open source AI has moved from side project to serious infrastructure. The open models businesses are now deploying, from Kimi K3 to Qwen 3.8 to GLM 5.3, live on Hugging Face, alongside the datasets, libraries and demos that make them usable.
Yet for many builders and enterprise teams in Singapore, the ecosystem still feels like a maze: thousands of models, unclear licences, and no obvious path from a model card to something running in production.
OpenBuilder hosts a special edition in partnership with Hugging Face, together with SGInnovate, to make sense of it.
Hugging Face is the home of open source AI, the platform where the world's machine learning community shares and builds on models, datasets and applications. Together we will give you a working map of the ecosystem: what exists, how the pieces fit together, and how to actually use them in your own work.
What we will cover
How the open source AI ecosystem is organised: models, datasets, Spaces, and the libraries that connect them
How to evaluate and choose an open model for your use case, and how to read a licence before you commit
Running open models in practice: on your laptop, on your own infrastructure, or through hosted inference
Building agents on open models, and where the open agentic stack is heading
Fine tuning and customising open models on your own data
What this means for enterprises weighing sovereignty, cost and control against closed model APIs
Live demos and open Q&A with the Hugging Face team
Who will be in the room AI builders and engineers shipping with open models, CTOs and technical leaders comparing open and closed stacks, founders building products on open source AI, and enterprise owners who want to understand what the open ecosystem can do for their business.
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face is the platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets and applications. It is the default place where new open models are released, discovered and put to work, used by developers and companies around the world.
About OpenBuilder
OpenBuilder is a Singapore community of 8,000+ AI builders and enterprise owners focused on the open source agentic AI ecosystem. We have run 60+ events and workshops with partners including SGInnovate, AWS, Airwallex, Alibaba Cloud and Bitdeer AI.
About SGInnovate
SGInnovate is a Singapore government backed organisation that builds and invests in deep tech startups and talent, including in AI.
Capacity is limited. Register early to secure your seat.