Nvidia Reportedly Stops Flirting With Hugging Face and Just Buys It
gizmodo.com
The apparent deal values the company at about $13 billion.

Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😢

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    823·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • darkkite@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

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

      • mrunicornman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I just put together a budget starter PC for local inference. I guess this is my cue to set up and get downloading.

    • M137@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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.