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NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion (gizmodo.com)
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Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😒

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[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] civ@lemmy.civl.cc 24 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

I've never understood why they don't seed torrents for those huge files. So much money on bandwidth that they just don't need to spend.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

All they do is store tho, they dont profit off that I imagine, I honestly have no clue

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Probably hoping to do what GitHub did. Profit of the metrics of who is downloading what, who is developing what and having everyone uploading all their stuff to them.

Microsoft didn't buy GitHub for the storage and bandwidth bills.

NVidia isn't buying huggingface for the storage and bandwidth bills either