c/technology · by obbeel@kbin.earth · 2d

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

https://www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-deal

It was already rumored, but now we know.

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19 Comments

saltesc@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 2d (6 replies)

“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?

moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2d

There's no way they could be lying, right?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 2d (3 replies)

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

Asafum@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d

as long as it’s their hardware

This is the problem for me. AMD exist, Mac exists, Intel exists, and they rely on llama.cpp which now has the devs getting their paychecks from Nvidia... They'll just "direct primary focus" onto cuda development and oops we didn't touch SYCL support for 8 months... Whoopsiedoodle.

I literally just bought a b70... Fucking Nvidia...

Yes I know its open source, but the devs currently have a decent pace with updates. Relying on unpaid devs to care about SYLC when most people don't run it anyway is probably worse than relying on Nvidia paid devs to eventually get to it :/

RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2d

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.

obbeel@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 2d

I think they're going for a GitHub/Microsoft approach. Let people enjoy themselves in a nice environment and cut them off if something does not fit/satisfy. Then call it "rogue behavior" to keep the public in check.

db2@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d

Github had entered the chat

shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 37 pts · 2d (1 reply)