NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion

Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😢

gizmodo.com/nvidia-reportedly-stops-flirting-with-hugging-face-and-just-buys-it-2000803681

Get ready for the model purge

Is there something unique about hugging face that the models cannot be hosted elsewhere? I see open source as more important to Nvidia than anyone else because it sells hardware. The services’ motivations are only partially aligned with Nvidia.

I think it’s mainly just the huge amount of storage. Huggingface has been burning venture capital money for the insane among of storage space they need, afaik

I don’t see how they could be burning considerable amounts of money on storage, as long as they have setup their own infrastructure and don’t rent it.

I don’t know how much they’re storing, I guess they’re in the petabyte territory. That’s what, a few tens of millions of dollars of up front investment?

Not free, but not such a huge amount of money.