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 😢

  • negativenull@piefed.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    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
    • yeh74fjic8e5we@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.