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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 willmadden »

randusername wrote: post #601

Grim prediction: "Quantized models are no longer permitted on the Hugging Face platform. Reduced precision models are a safety hazard and a violation of our TOS. Click here to speak with a sales representative about our many exciting cloud hosting offerings or enterprise GPU packages."

Unlikely, but say goodbye to uncensored and abliterated models.

These acquisitions are not healthy. They stifle competition and make it easier for governments to censor open weight models by choking off distribution points.

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

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Post by echelon »

randusername wrote: post #601

Grim prediction: "Quantized models are no longer permitted on the Hugging Face platform. Reduced precision models are a safety hazard and a violation of our TOS. Click here to speak with a sales representative about our many exciting cloud hosting offerings or enterprise GPU packages."

Nvidia's LLM hyperscaler partners are actively developing custom, non-Nvidia chips.

Nvidia has a deep interest in open source models to counter the LLM hyperscalers.

Nvidia also has a big bet on robotics and local AI, which requires model efficiency.

I'd worry far more about Dario and Sam regulatory capturing the US market via a "model safety" scare.

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

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Post by Kye »

OpenRouter->Stripe (~$7B)

Hugging Face->Nvidia ($13B)

Keep an eye on Exa. With local models and niche harnesses proliferating, they're going to need a way to search without everyone having to run their own index.

Google is an obvious buyer if they could get it past regulators. A Doubleclick-level addition of the agentic stuff they're bad at to the indexing they're good at.

Nvidia is the obvious less conflicted #2

Secret third option: Cloudflare. They're already the glue for so much of this stuff.

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

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Post by shevy-java »

setopt wrote: post #626
z2 wrote: post #602

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everyone's got a noble goal until they get a buyout offer promising to make them a billionaire Edit: Just discovered via this post that hn posts, like the exchanges, filter out emoji

Well, yeah. I also wouldn’t like to explain to my family why my emoji is more important than being set for life.

It's not just emoji. Using hackernews is much worse than old.reddit.com used to be.

Ironically enough, reddit recently killed off old.reddit; you now have to log in, which defeats the point of old.reddit.com totally.

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

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Post by vkaku »

randusername wrote: post #601

Grim prediction: "Quantized models are no longer permitted on the Hugging Face platform. Reduced precision models are a safety hazard and a violation of our TOS. Click here to speak with a sales representative about our many exciting cloud hosting offerings or enterprise GPU packages."

We really need an artifactory for GGUFs

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

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Post by 6bb32646d83d »

codemog wrote: post #577
armcat wrote: post #551

HF has been a close part of my ML/AI career, coinciding exactly when I moved into this space 10 years ago. There are lot of nuances here (if the deal goes through). Some people say it's a loss for EU sovereign AI but HF is technically an American corporation. On the positive note, the founders (Julien, Thomas and Clem - all French) stem to make significant amount of money, which they are likely to pour into a new fro…

> which they are likely to pour into a new frontier AI lab in Europe HF was.. a hub to download models and some of the worst source code in the space that contributed to huge amounts bugs that did a lot of downstream damage. Go ahead and read their blog by their CTO on how they don’t believe in DRY and then implemented DRY in the worst way imaginable with unnecessary code generation. Their BLOOM model was a joke and…

A good reminder that moving fast and getting product fit >>>>> code quality

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

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Post by Bognar »

jstummbillig wrote: post #576
sciurus wrote: post #571

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

That looks roughly like a service being hammered by AI agents starting 2025, with no discernible connection to a 2012 acquisition by anyone.

It was 2018. As someone who worked at GitHub during the Microsoft era, I think Microsoft was a pretty reasonable steward of GitHub right up until Copilot started getting popular. After that, leadership stopped investing in the core product and infrastructure and either incentivized people moving into the Copilot org or just fully reorged teams into it regardless.

The load increase from AI is definitely significant, but I think with proper investment they would not be having this many issues.

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