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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
My question is what their motivation is.
- Do they want to close down open models so more is directed at the frontier/closed companies (OpenAI/Anthropic)?
- Or are they trying to diversify and push open models as a safety net for when the bubble bursts
Replying to @negativenull@piefed.world
The latter sounds like the smarter move, so it's probably the former.
Replying to @negativenull@piefed.world
To stop a competitor from getting the same kind of control. Particularly if its one of the foreign (to US) ones that’s less amenable to whatever US policy is on any given day.
Replying to @negativenull@piefed.world
One of the many reasons is likely to make sure models stay specifically optimized for NVidia hardware, by floating them to the top of the search results and making sure that they’re the only ones that get special prices on the tools and hosting. It’s such a fast-moving industry that they know they won’t always have the fastest chips indefinitely.