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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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Remember just 6 months ago that "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088037)

(Ggml.ai is llama.cpp.)

Curious if the “I consider HuggingFace more "Open AI" than OpenAI” sentiment in that top comment will still apply with NVIDIA as the boss now...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Large numbers of people outside of the United States probably do.

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No, just people that prefer the largest economy and military power in the world to be as stable as possible.

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

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Nvidia's been pretty terrible for open source / free software. No need to quote Linus Torvalds here. They want to control what runs on their hardware. They want to you write code against their proprietary drivers and APIs, not directly against the hardware (which these days of course also contains plenty of software, but still). Don't expect things to go differently this time around. Nvidia wants control over the sof…

Nvidia has hardly open sourced the nvcc compiler, yet no-one here is complaining about why it is closed source.

Modular on the other hand creates the Mojo compiler gets criticised for not open sourcing it immediately and now once they do, no-one cares anymore.

Huggingface was not just a target for open source, but as a force to have open weight models run better on Nvidia against the rest.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is like saying GitHub or Google just gives away everything for free

Not really. GitHub has a strong platform of paying customers and a solid product that’s hard to replicate. Google is obvious. Hugging Face is a file download mirror with a couple of side features dangling off.

Whether you realize it or not Hugging Face's monetization is just as obvious as GitHub's
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