inari@piefed.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoNvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billionwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square67linkfedilinkarrow-up1272arrow-down12 cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squaretechnobyte@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·13 hours agoMild 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
minus-squareMiaou@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·47 minutes agoGH is down every second day, yet we’re still alive
minus-squaremesa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 hours agoDidnt 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.
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
GH is down every second day, yet we’re still alive
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.