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

Nvidia also sells super expensive graphics cards. They probably want you to buy a couple of 5090s or a Spark.

They know they can't shut down the entire self hosted LLM market but they can direct it towards using Nvidia GPUs by making sure llama.cpp devs don't spend much time on ROCm support, etc. And they probably know that ClosedAI and Anthropic's days on the frontier are limited.

HuggingBay to the rescue 🏴‍☠️

We are in a war with the rich. Always have been. We will never have nice things unless you take it from them.

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.

Why do we need a centralized hub for AI models anyway? I've never figured this out. We flock to these big "friendly" fucking companies with obviously unsustainable business models trying to own and sell things that should be shared in a decentralized, democratized mesh anyway. AI models should all be distributed magnet links, not hosted files. Why do we do this to ourselves?

The way things are going at Huggingface now, I imagine we probably will have to start building the infrastructure we need to handle AI models as distributed links sooner rather than later. Let the enshittification begin, we'll move on to a different tactic for sharing AI models while cheerfully they squeeze cash out of people and businesses too lazy to adapt. Everything working as it should, I guess.

There are worse things than copyrights not mattering anymore.

for a database to train their product on

Isn't hugging face a database of already trained models?

Yeah I don't understand these valuations at all. I wish I did so that I could get a billion dollars for a website that doesn't particularly own anything.

Is this some attempt at poisoning AI?

not everyone has a hate boner for AI

Circular like this

It's more of a reverse funnel system. A pyramid scheme, if you will.

The latter sounds like the smarter move, so it's probably the former.

To stop a competitor from getting the same kind of control. Particularly if its one of the foreign (to US) ones that's less amenable to whatever US policy is on any given day.

One of the many reasons is likely to make sure models stay specifically optimized for NVidia hardware, by floating them to the top of the search results and making sure that they're the only ones that get special prices on the tools and hosting. It's such a fast-moving industry that they know they won't always have the fastest chips indefinitely.

Well the good news is they can't take away from you what you already have. It being an open source project, I'm assuming if they do anything to deliberately gut AMD performance, it'll get forked.

Also

The 7900 XTX is the only sanely priced 24GB GPU left in 2026 (under $1k vs. $2k, $3k, $4k for Nvidia 24-32GB cards).

Not on sale anymore, at least not at any vendor in my country, I searched an aggregate pricing website. Amazon has a few used ones left of some models, but that's probably a 2 or 3 digit figure across SKUs. Hold on to yours with an iron grip.

What kind of tok/s are you getting with it on Qwen 3.8 27B and how's the output quality? I may consider getting one if I can find one used or import from abroad.

what if the LLAMA.CPP devs working at Nvidia improves CUDA support and keeps other vendor support.

The core llama.cpp maintainers also work at HF and will now work for Nvidia I guess. Llama.cpp is a pretty significant part of the local LLM stack, especially since other tools like Ollama and LMStudio are just GUIs built on top.

I guess that explains why features like quantized KV caches are lagging behind. Maintainers are purposely dragging their feet.

the community may need to step up our game and get our eggs out of the big tech basket.

The community has chosen to not fight at all, which is worse. Anti-AI sentiment is at an all-time high.

Publicly. Privately, these hypocrites still whisper in ChatGPT's ear when they get lazy enough. Or use some feature in Photoshop or some other software that they didn't even understand was AI-driven.

Oh no! -forks code- anyway…

I've downloaded a terabyte worth of models and didn't pay a cent. storage and bandwidth cost money

It was open source till the ones who has the keys (which shouldn't be a thing for FOSS in the first place) got an offer that made their greed take over. It's a thing that keeps happening and it needs to be a very strong lesson that anything open source needs to be handled in a way where no one can do this.

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.

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.

Neither does github