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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 66 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

“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?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] obbeel@kbin.earth 8 points 3 days ago

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.

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