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Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
It was already rumored, but now we know.
www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-dealReplying to @obbeel@kbin.earth
“Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem. Developers will choose the models they want, the frameworks they want, the clouds and inference service providers they want and the computing platforms they want. Nvidia compute will not be required to build on or deploy through Hugging Face.”
Uh-huh. So why did they buy it then?
Replying to @saltesc@lemmy.world
devils advocate: to promote their own platform through it and to try to keep it as “open” as it is. In the end, they also profit from people running models locally or on a server, as long as it’s their hardware
the skeptic in me: sooner or later, the models will only be available with a paid account, and all external connections to non-nvidia run services will be cut
Replying to @SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
There’s a conflict of interests in there. Nvidia is heavily tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government. The mostly chinese models hosted on huggingface are direct competitors and viewed as enemy tech by the US government.This is going to be a massive shitshow. Probably starts with banning de-censored versions of the models from the platform.