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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 kevinthedigger »

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."

Sounds like there’d be space to build another company.

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

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Post by sixothree »

1123581321 wrote: post #236
sixothree wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I’m not sure your point, sorry.

I was not making a point. I was trying to clarify the example.

But after the answers, I do think his example is poor. Models available at HF have many purposes and will run on many platforms. Commenters here are suggesting this will no longer be the case.

Whereas the example Workflow (iOS only) -> Shortcuts (iOS only), there was no change in that regard.

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

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Post by tolugenius »

Assuming this deal goes through, I do wonder what this means for the future of open source models. Like it's very possible the next deepseek model host it's weight on it's site first, vs treating HF as a canonical hosting site. Just my guess, but regardless we'll have to see how labs (and even countries) respond to a less neutral HF.

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

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Post by LurkandComment »

It could go either way. I think its better for Nvidia to play both open sides and closed models as their chips will be used in both. The only thing that compromises them is that there is a lot of investment they have in the closed models.

Time to see how Jensen plays it.

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

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Post by indigodaddy »

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…

Just because a huge company could replicate an OR or HF replacement, doesn't mean by any measure that users will abandon OR/HF and flock to the mega-corp equivalent. In fact even the opposite-- users might be turned off and reticent to even try the mega-corp's..

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

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Post by andrewflnr »

orbifold wrote: post #665
saberience wrote: post #611

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry but you're talking absolute nonsense, Europe has no global successes? How about... SAP (Germany) - Most of the Fortune 500 run on their software. Spotify (Sweden) Novo Nordisk (Denmark) - most of America is taking their drugs. Airbus (France) - Has out competed and out delivered Boeing for years. Ericsson and Nokia (Finland and Sweden) - Most of American telecom systems use tech from them, essentially the weste…

If SAP appears in a list of successes then clearly EU is fucked.

That's an embarrassing example that shouldn't have been at the top, but most of the rest are good.

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

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Post by colingauvin »

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 literally releases quantization tools.
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