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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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Agreed. For anyone who doesn’t have a 24GB card, the AMD 7900 XTX is basically the only sanely priced 24GB GPU left in 2026 and can be had for under a grand new, whereas even a used 3090 is $1200 and $2000 new.
Qwen 3.8 27B runs nicely on my XTX. I have to use Claude at work, and Qwen 3.8 in llama.cpp with the OpenCode desktop app leaves nothing to be desired in comparison. 3.8 27B is about on par with Sonnet 5 according to benchmarks, though I even prefer it over Opus because Qwen writes in clear, understandable language. We are at the point now where anyone with a 24GB GPU has little reason to use data center LLMs.