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Doesn't OpenAI have every incentive to destroy HuggingFace?

Post by jrm4 » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

Just wondering about this, because I don't think I've seen it said plainly. Hugging Face is the place where all us home-labbing AI enthusiasts get our models from.

Aka, at the end of the day, OpenAI's likely mortal enemy. It feels like no one is mentioning this point, am I missing something?

Re: Doesn't OpenAI have every incentive to destroy HuggingFace?

Post by verdverm » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC

> am I missing something?

What and where they say different things. Look at how much they and Anthropic are spending in politics this year alone. They are also having backroom conversations with the administration.

Re: Doesn't OpenAI have every incentive to destroy HuggingFace?

Post by wmf » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC

Sometimes an accident is just an accident.

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