Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's literally the GitHub for AI
Github was acquired for $7B. It's hard for me to see how HF is worth almost double Github.
AI is the current thing, HF does the current thing. Hype cycles in computing anyone?
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
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Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#482Nvidia'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…
> They want
> They want
[citation needed]
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#483Nvidia for Hugging Face will be even worse than Microsoft for GitHub and we know now how low the bar is here.
I heavily disagree. Nvidia has a strong interest in open source AI being a strong contender to proprietary models. They don't want a single AI company to win, as that company would then have enormous leverage over Nvidia, and could perhaps even erode the Cuda moat with their own chip spending. They want the AI market to be hypercompetitive, with AI companies focusing on competing amongst themselves instead of with Nv…
> Nvidia has a strong interest in open source
Linus would heavily disagree!
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#484Nvidia'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…
Disagree. When it comes to AI, mvidia has been one of the most open labs. They open source a lot things and are open to contributions
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#485Out of all the companies that could have acquired hugging face, I think nvidia is the best fit. If it had to happen, happy it was them
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#486EU regulators...wake up!
I also see this as an antitrust case, but to see that, you need to be much more up to date on technology than anyone who decides such things.
It's comparable to the biggest bank buying the biggest ratings agency.
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#487Nvidia for Hugging Face will be even worse than Microsoft for GitHub and we know now how low the bar is here.
I heavily disagree. Nvidia has a strong interest in open source AI being a strong contender to proprietary models. They don't want a single AI company to win, as that company would then have enormous leverage over Nvidia, and could perhaps even erode the Cuda moat with their own chip spending. They want the AI market to be hypercompetitive, with AI companies focusing on competing amongst themselves instead of with Nv…
NVidia has a strong interest in profit. The only reason we are allowed to live in chip shangri-la is because they can make a profit out of it, nothing else.
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#488Are there any HF alternatives besides https://modelscope.cn/, particularly any based not in China?
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#489You're running the leading website to the future of LLM and Ai and you decide to Nvidia. All for $13bn, folk don't understand money.
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
#490Earlier quoted context omitted.
I heavily disagree. Nvidia has a strong interest in open source AI being a strong contender to proprietary models. They don't want a single AI company to win, as that company would then have enormous leverage over Nvidia, and could perhaps even erode the Cuda moat with their own chip spending. They want the AI market to be hypercompetitive, with AI companies focusing on competing amongst themselves instead of with Nv…
> Nvidia has a strong interest in open source Linus would heavily disagree!
He said 2 years ago they are okay nowadays (they were not in the past).
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