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It was already rumored, but now we know.

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

[–] moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago

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

[–] 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

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 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.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Github had entered the chat

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

Nvidia is the only one that's getting cash out of all of this. They sell shovels, everyone else is looking for gold

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

let the enshittification begin

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago
[–] Cyb3rSh0nk3r@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 days ago
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Lmao. Let the dogs eat each other.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago
[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 7 points 3 days ago

Non partnered anti-American model detected, please present yourself to the drone swarm.

[–] obbeel@kbin.earth 7 points 3 days ago

fucking corpos, amirite? not like Alibaba or Tencent aren't corpos aswell

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Company buying should be capped at 1 billion.