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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 costco »

dang wrote: post #37
riddley wrote: post #14

Anyone old enough to remember anti trust laws or even just laws?

Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. No doubt you have the nucleus of a substantive comment here, but that's not enough. If you only post the shallowest top stratum of what you're thinking, other people do the same, and then we get "Laws are for poor people" and endless descending repetition. The whole point of this site is to try for something other than that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgui…

This is the last time I will engage in self promotion for a while but the above comment and some of its replies are a perfect demonstration of my latest guidelines violations project… https://classify.stylometry.net/violations/49458425?threshol...

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

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Post by cpburns2009 »

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."

That would be if Anthropic purchased Hugging Face, not Nvidia.

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

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Post by mcmcmc »

galangalalgol wrote: post #578
huurtehoog wrote: post #561

This is the opening move of the end game for the current "AI" wave. Hyperscalers and hardware manufacturers will absorb the overgrowth and hopefully (for them, sucks for us) settle at the top of the software value chain. The only way to make all the money poured into compute for the last 4 years pay for itself at any level is selling people and corporations on very inefficient software for the next couple of decades.…

So anytime someone comes out with something efficient it will get bought and bloated?

In America, yes

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

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Post by sbennettmcleish »

furyofantares wrote: post #736
afpx wrote: post #644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"don't appear to have much IP that cannot be easily replicated" I'm ready to be wrong but doesn't this describe basically every tech acquisition for the last 25 years or longer?

I was going to say "how about github?" ... but, maybe you're right

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

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Post by HolyLampshade »

stockresearcher wrote: post #693
HolyLampshade wrote: post #590

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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 tha…

Don’t disagree there, though this has been status quo for nearly two decades now.

By that measure regional exchanges were their own beasts for a long time. The environment has definitely streamlined a ton since RegNMS was implemented and the exchanges consolidated a bit.

Even the technology stacks the current markets run are basically identical within three families of design (even the upstart markets, and even those that are not directly licensing technology from ICE, Nasdaq, or Cboe). Differentiation just doesn’t pay like it used to.

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

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Post by maerF0x0 »

hermitShell wrote: post #701
afpx wrote: post #644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

America is headed towards techno zaibatsu economy. Just a product of the dynamics of capital and power. Too much cash, Nvidia is forced to try and find ways to deploy excess capital very quickly. Most efficient way is to absorb players in emerging industries, bet on the potential for growth in new markets to help keep ROI up. It is a great day for startups, the goal is to sell out and get rich, no? INB4 China comes i…

1. America needs to repeal citizens united, it's the source of many angles of corruption

2. I think it will happen much sooner than 2245 given how easily capital and the rich are able to move around the globe in 2026 (compared to 1945)

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

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Post by newswasboring »

r_lee wrote: post #700
newswasboring wrote: post #689

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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

A 99.5 means over one year you will need to wait about 40 hours total for the issue to be solved. What kind of high pressure crud app are you making where this is a problem?

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

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Post by maerF0x0 »

sbennettmcleish wrote: post #744
furyofantares wrote: post #736

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"don't appear to have much IP that cannot be easily replicated" I'm ready to be wrong but doesn't this describe basically every tech acquisition for the last 25 years or longer?

I was going to say "how about github?" ... but, maybe you're right

Github definitely extended git to a far less technical audience than basic git came from. Emailing patches or connecting to others' remote hosts to pull changes was too much complexity for many customers.

Pull requests, CI platform, authentication that is not PAM etc.

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

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Post by LeBit »

furyofantares wrote: post #736
afpx wrote: post #644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"don't appear to have much IP that cannot be easily replicated" I'm ready to be wrong but doesn't this describe basically every tech acquisition for the last 25 years or longer?

Developing a tactile trackpad that works really well is maybe a tad more difficult than downloading and uploading stuff.
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