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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 Jewaganda »

diabllicseagull wrote: post #43
esalman wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who've played video games and obsessed over graphics cards long before this all started, don't get your hopes up.

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

You Jews just make shit up lol

No gamer had a problem with nvidia.

Many bought their mobos and video cards.

Mac was pretty hated, Steam was very hated, we didn’t bow to any software company.

Nvidia actually made hardware.

Your propaganda is so awful because it’s always obvious you have no experience

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

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Post by newswasboring »

Roark66 wrote: post #673

Soo, what are they buying exactly? Can I setup a forgejo instance, upload a bunch of open source models to it and get bought out for $13bln? I fail to see the point of this. Their inference hosting is a joke (I don't think I ever had a working response from a "try this model" form). Their brand alone surely is not worth this much. So what are they paying for? I worry the answer is, for control over who is allowed to…

> Their brand alone surely is not worth this much.

HF has become the front runner in open model hosting. They have a lot of trust from the wider community. That's gotta count for something.

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

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Post by JV00 »

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."

In that case, somebody will open a new platform to upload the quantized models and hf will lose market share

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

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Post by prsutherland »

| Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

The title is not the linked article’s title. It is the title of the first article in the description.

FWIW, “agrees” is a weird verb. Kinda sounds like they are doing this out of kindness and not their own interests.

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

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Post by newswasboring »

croes wrote: post #583
xienze wrote: post #553

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the big boy AI stuff runs on servers, which certainly aren't going to be running on Windows or Mac anytime soon. Linux _is_ what all this NVIDIA hardware is going to run on until... what exactly? FreeBSD overtakes Linux in the server space?

Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux? And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation

Can we at least let the early days of AI play out before we try to guess then next big thing? ChatGPT isn't even half a decade old.

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

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Post by jgilias »

dgellow wrote: post #641
jgilias wrote: post #605

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Ok, so, what research department did Nvidia grow out of?

NVIDIA has a research lab (actually, multiple given how massive they are)

Volkswagen has a couple too. Like, actual laboratories with people in white coats working in them. You don’t call Volkswagen “a lab” because of that.

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

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Post by xienze »

croes wrote: post #583
xienze wrote: post #553

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the big boy AI stuff runs on servers, which certainly aren't going to be running on Windows or Mac anytime soon. Linux _is_ what all this NVIDIA hardware is going to run on until... what exactly? FreeBSD overtakes Linux in the server space?

Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux? And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation

> Who knows what i sthe next big thing after AI. Maybe something that doesn't need Linux?

And Nvidia hardware was running on Linux before AI as well...

> And I'm not so sure that Mac is out of the equation

Mac servers exist but anyone serious about running at scale isn't using them for a number of reasons, not least of which is that Apple simply doesn't make real servers anymore...

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

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Post by dd8601fn »

JV00 wrote: post #683
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."

In that case, somebody will open a new platform to upload the quantized models and hf will lose market share

One would assume.

Just out of curiosity, how did Hugging Face have the money to run that operation?

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

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Post by newswasboring »

r_lee wrote: post #672
SideQuark wrote: post #494

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Not sure what you’re intending to show. That page shows 99.5%+ uptime across all 11 of the services provided. To do that at a small company world cost significant money. To have it integrated and cheap for all those small shops is very valuable to them.

99.5% uptime is nothing significant...

Yeah but it's sufficient for the largest part of CI needs. Most people are making CRUD apps, 6 9s reliability is not required there.

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

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Post by willmadden »

mcv wrote: post #653
willmadden wrote: post #631

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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.

Goodbye? Or maybe hello to a new platform.

Hello to the new app store and "Nvidia model approval process".
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