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Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 47 points 3 days ago (1 child)

13 billions for something that if disappeared overnight, it would be just a mildly inconvenience and replaced by a 1:1 competitor in less than a day?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Mild inconvenience? HF hosts millions of models and datasets, that would be a huge loss and break all software that depends on it

    Competitors (like ModelScope) already exist but are rarely used outside of China

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago

    Didnt hugging face take its inspiration from another website that hosted scientific big models to begin with? I forget.

    Most people use hugging face as a glorified model download storage. I can see a competitor pop up almost instantly.

    Where the "value" is in the name recognition and ability to take models they dont like down.

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