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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 Forgeties79 »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #214
rezonant wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you just quote an LLM as a citation? That's not how citations work.

"That's not how citations work." (Dude on the interwebz, 2026) But more seriously, this is my first time seeing that as well, and I'm not sure I like it. Citing an LLM is a little like citing Wikipedia to me, you cite the primary source the LLM is quoting directly, not the secondary source.

It’s the formatting and formality that bother me. Say “I looked it up with Gemini,” don’t give me some weak attempt at “proper citation” to legitimize the bare minimum effort you put in.

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

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Post by jijji »

GeertB wrote: post #108

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…

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

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

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Post by swozey »

make3 wrote: post #162
kpw94 wrote: post #111

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...

NVidia has reasonable incentives to keep things open indefinitely, it wants people to use it's GPUs

It'd be really nice if I could use my egpu 4090 on my macbook pro..

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

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Post by sixothree »

1123581321 wrote: post #209
petterroea wrote: post #28

I have never seen an acquisition be good for the users. I struggle to believe this one will be different

Apple buying Workflow (became Shortcuts). Its users have a better, faster tool and got it soon after acquisition. And it has many more users now.

Was Workflow available on every platform running on every hardware provider?

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

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Post by esalman »

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).

NVIDIA introduced programs like The Way It's Meant to be Played, optimizing major game titles specifically for NVIDIA architecture, which made competitions like AMD cards underperform in critical releases.

I'm old enough to remember.

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

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Post by 1123581321 »

sixothree wrote: post #234
1123581321 wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple buying Workflow (became Shortcuts). Its users have a better, faster tool and got it soon after acquisition. And it has many more users now.

Was Workflow available on every platform running on every hardware provider?

I’m not sure your point, sorry.

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

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Post by swozey »

chorizo wrote: post #180
brainless wrote: post #106

HF is the default platform to find models. Not just ones published by big labs but also a lot of the distilled or fine-tuned versions, etc. If Nvidia buying HF makes it tough for all the diverse models on HF, then what are some alternatives? It seems models are the best things to be available on a Torrent platform? Of course HF is much more than just the files but perhaps the metadata can be separate and hosted on mu…

If HF didn’t exist, model releases would likely have been on torrents like Linux iso’s back in the day.

I'd honestly prefer that. I'm usually on 5g if not 4g and pulling models is an absolute nightmare when I basically have to use HF and even with a token getting throttled. Although I have a pretty unique use case. Pulling wads of 5gb tensor files over cellular is painful.

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

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Post by behringer »

bdangubic wrote: post #213
matheusmoreira wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> NVIDIA is one of the most open labs. Of course they are. They're commoditizing their complement. I want to own the hardware, not play around in an nvidia fiefdom full of nvidia rules.

nothing stopping you from doing that

Can't buy a decent modern Intel gpu to run AI on because of nividias "donation"

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

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Post by rcleveng »

binarymax wrote: post #62

Well congrats to Clem and the team. I remember when huggingface was doing things like coreference resolution models on spacy. I hope nvidia does right by the community. Edit to add: $13B should cover the S3 egress fees for a couple months :D

Totally, and as long as they don't turn on the AWS NAT Gateway, they'll be just fine.

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

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Post by troyvit »

cyberrock wrote: post #203
GeertB wrote: post #108

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…

>No need to quote Linus Torvalds here Evidently we should, because Linus has been more positive about Nvidia in the last 2 years [0]. I've been using the open driver for years now, for both gaming and CUDA. [0] https://binarymusings.org/posts/talks/linus-on-ai-linux-in-k...

He definitely sounds more pragmatic than before, which is, in a sense, more positive.

> This is actually one of the benefits brought by AI; it has made Nvidia a good participant in the Linux kernel space. [...] Now, when Linux is so important for AI clouds, Nvidia suddenly cares very much about Linux.

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