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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 dd8601fn »

shadowgovt wrote: post #674
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."

Yeah. I want to be optimistic, but this feels a lot like how there used to be multiple video hosting sites and now there's just YouTube (and its copyright filters).

Now I’m going to get a little nostalgic about Vimeo. I feel like they really tried to be a better, more civilized video platform.

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

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Post by stockresearcher »

HolyLampshade wrote: post #590
MrDOS wrote: post #582

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 8 character alpha Good thing “xn--zp9h” fits, then.

Amusingly there is plenty of precedent (link below under Nasdaq Integrated Platform Suffix and the older ACT/CTCI suffixes) for using all of the wonderful character symbols to indicate different classes of securities. Not as common, again, as it used to be...but still exists. https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=CQSsymbolconvent...

Nasdaq becomes more and more like a “normal” exchange every year. Historically, they’ve always just done their own thing for their own purpose, so it makes sense.

** for those that don’t know: NASDAQ stands for “National Association of Security Dealers - Automated Quotation (service)”. It was forced into existence by the SEC. Prior to that there was only the NASD, who traded blocks of shares amongst themselves so that each individual security dealer could meet the needs of their customers. As the trading amongst themselves grew larger and larger, the SEC added progressively more regulation until finally the had to build the NASDAQ computer system, which nobody would even recognize today.

So again, they were always separate from everything else and did things that made sense according to their own needs. They were very different until they were no longer allowed to be different.

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

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Post by LastTrain »

afpx wrote: post #644
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."

This acquisition and the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter are puzzling. Both HF and OR, from a technological standpoint, don't appear to have much IP that cannot be easily replicated. I wonder how much it's worth to Nvidia just to obtain a list of who's downloading which models and for what purpose. Similarly with the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter. In the past, it would have been valuable to obtain an audience or…

I've just about stopped trying to think about things in terms of fundamentals.

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

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Post by diabllicseagull »

SJC_Hacker wrote: post #509
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.

3dfx had their own API which locked in game developers. This was far worse than anything NVidia has tried

have you heard of PhysX, Hairworks, or the CUDA moat?

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

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Post by DebtDeflation »

afpx wrote: post #644
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."

This acquisition and the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter are puzzling. Both HF and OR, from a technological standpoint, don't appear to have much IP that cannot be easily replicated. I wonder how much it's worth to Nvidia just to obtain a list of who's downloading which models and for what purpose. Similarly with the Stripe acquisition of OpenRouter. In the past, it would have been valuable to obtain an audience or…

Nvidia is hedging their bets against becoming too dependent on OpenAI, Anthropic, and the hyperscalers as their only customers. If on-prem deployments of open models starts taking off in corporate America, this acquisition positions them well.

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

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Post by Whitespace »

penciltwirler wrote: post #680
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…

Hugging Face's internal storage system is more sophisticated now after they acquired XetHub. They have a clever way to chunk and content dedupe the data that makes it a lot more efficient to version control large files.

Xet's tech is very interesting and I greatly enjoyed their blog posts and other technical writeups[0]

But in the era of frontier models and hardware designed for fast model loading (eg: LLM on a chip) I can't imagine that this is worth so much. There's *a lot* of competition to improve Git LFS.

So while I agree with you that this plays a role I also have to believe that it's to understand model usage by competition and thus stifle it.

[0] - https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/overview

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

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Post by r_lee »

newswasboring wrote: post #689
r_lee wrote: post #672

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

not really, I've ran into Github Action downtime and you can't run tests or anything so either you wait or you just let stuff merge

and again don't know how this is acceptable in 2026, for a paid CI service

and I'm not talking about 6 9s, I mean, 99.5% is terrible

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