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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by jacquesm »

RachelF wrote: post #30
rjzzleep wrote: post #21

I'm puzzled by the reactions. This is not a good thing. Yes, they're releasing more open source code and models, but they do it BECAUSE OF pressure from the community and other open source projects. But Nvidia is a terrible open source and consumer company. They gatekeep a lot and oftentimes it's only open source in name. Outside contributions are often slow-walked or rejected if they don't align with business incent…

Linus Torvalds: 'Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with' His other comments on Nvidia often contain expletives.

Linus isn't wrong but at the same time NV has shipped more compute than AMD and Intel combined to consumers. The kind of performance I get out of a modest outlay never ceases to amaze me.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by stackghost »

HuggingFace offers abliterated/uncensored models, which would seem to run contrary to the "AI is too powerful for regular people" narrative that the big players are pushing.

My primary concern is that Nvidia will bow to the pressure and restrict abliterated/uncensored models on HF.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by jacquesm »

isatty wrote: post #53
diabllicseagull wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as gamers, we got burnt by nvidia way too many times. I'm still holding grudge over shutting down 3dfx.

Nvidia is indeed a terrible company when it comes to open source, etc. however, as someone who has been gaming on desktop hardware since the 6xxx card days, Nvidia hardware has always worked. I switched to Linux full time since the 2XX days (maybe it was the 280 gtx?) and never had a lot of the problems everyone else got on Linux (using only the closed source drivers).

Likewise, their hardware has been rock solid and very performant for me. I bought most of my current setup second hand and they've been going strong for years now.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by jacquesm »

stackghost wrote: post #92

HuggingFace offers abliterated/uncensored models, which would seem to run contrary to the "AI is too powerful for regular people" narrative that the big players are pushing. My primary concern is that Nvidia will bow to the pressure and restrict abliterated/uncensored models on HF.

That is a very good point. I will set aside some storage and download those models that I think are most at risk from a corporate clean-up action.

Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

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Post by anon291 »

stackghost wrote: post #92

HuggingFace offers abliterated/uncensored models, which would seem to run contrary to the "AI is too powerful for regular people" narrative that the big players are pushing. My primary concern is that Nvidia will bow to the pressure and restrict abliterated/uncensored models on HF.

I don't think nvda has ever pushed the idea that ai is too powerful for regular people.

That's the anthropics and openais of the world.

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