Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.
  • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
    516·
    5 days ago

    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?

    • technobyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      4 days ago

      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

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        12·
        4 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.