Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😢
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I know huggingface. I don’t know of anything they sell, though.
Neither does github
Buys what?
Ahhhh, this is what they meant by “the circular economy”
Ed Zitron is going to have an aneurysm.
Remember, the whole AI scheme exists to take the very concept of ownership from us. This takeover is hostile.
There are worse things than copyrights not mattering anymore.
Forget about rights as a whole for us plebs.
To the one Downvoter I’m curious, why are you such a little bitch?
They should put up a back up torrent of all the currently available models before transferring ownership. Thus opening the doors for future websites.
NVIDIA is probably trying to shutdown the LLM-at-home market (which means you don’t need huge clouds of graphics cards or even an Internet connection). Sad day for people who like to control their data.
I heard somewhere they are buying it because their own development platform sucks. So they are going to replace it with hugging face.
Which doesn’t preclude them from locking all the good stuff behind a subscription, of course.
Before any of these news I would use modelscope occasionally, it is the same thing as huggingface but Chinese and with a massive collection of mcp servers. Although they do not have the same amount of merged and fine tuned models, they are still a pretty good service
We just can’t have nice things can we.
HuggingBay to the rescue 🏴☠️
You wouldn’t pirate a model
oh that’s actually a thing, neat
I fail to understand the use of the term open source when the resource itself can be bought by oligarchs. Like organic vegetables, or clean coal.
I’ve downloaded a terabyte worth of models and didn’t pay a cent. storage and bandwidth cost money
Real money or pretend AI money
That’s the neat thing, none of it’s real, and the AI investment bubble is going to make that very clear in the near future.
Get ready for the model purge
Is there something unique about hugging face that the models cannot be hosted elsewhere? I see open source as more important to Nvidia than anyone else because it sells hardware. The services’ motivations are only partially aligned with Nvidia.
I think it’s mainly just the huge amount of storage. Huggingface has been burning venture capital money for the insane among of storage space they need, afaik
I don’t see how they could be burning considerable amounts of money on storage, as long as they have setup their own infrastructure and don’t rent it.
I don’t know how much they’re storing, I guess they’re in the petabyte territory. That’s what, a few tens of millions of dollars of up front investment?
Not free, but not such a huge amount of money.
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Porn
My question is what their motivation is.
- Do they want to close down open models so more is directed at the frontier/closed companies (OpenAI/Anthropic)?
- Or are they trying to diversify and push open models as a safety net for when the bubble bursts
The latter sounds like the smarter move, so it’s probably the former.
Oh no we have to get decent local models from somewhere else now.
this site seems to be better than others ive seen : https://llama.garden/
complaints - the torrents are packs of all different quants … or some are just safetensor files.
The Ouroboros must be fed!
