Heh, thats a weird way to announced the death of HuggingFace.
Why death? Rather prosperity with a cash injection!
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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> 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…
They’ve provided insane value to the ai community. Imo is there really any obvious way to standardize model/preprocessing/inference/training/rl recipes across the space of frankenstein model family/architecture/modality combinations? It’s not even clear to me that the current frontier would be where it is today without HF doing what they did how they did it. Where else were people widely sharing datasets w that ease…
I think both can be true at the same time. They provided insane value, and while I'm not sure if they were first, they were most people's introduction during the initial LLM boom. Their code was also sloppy, and the org was mismanaged. Sometimes, success really is just 'right place, right time'
Re: Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
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> I don't think there's a name for "buying makers of complementary goods". That's still vertical integration, you're just looking down the tube from the wrong end. Suppose a company that sells PCs also makes CPUs. That's obviously vertical integration, right? CPUs are part of the supply chain for PCs. Likewise if they make SSDs. But CPUs and SSDs are also complementary goods. They're both sold to PC OEMs in order to…
You have merely described vertical integration and something that isn't vertical integration and claimed they are the same thing.
That's because they are the same thing. Integrating the complementary goods into a single offering is obviously vertical integration. Not integrating them would make the acquisition pointless -- or even more nakedly anti-competitive, when the purpose is to inhibit integration with competitors rather than improve integration with the company's own products.