Anyone old enough to remember anti trust laws or even just laws?

I'm puzzled by the reactions. This is not a good thing. Yes, they're releasing more open source code and models, but they do it BECAUSE OF pressure from the community and other open source projects.

But Nvidia is a terrible open source and consumer company. They gatekeep a lot and oftentimes it's only open source in name. Outside contributions are often slow-walked or rejected if they don't align with business incentives , and leadership is retained 100% in a couple of people from a certain country.

Potentially horrible for monopoly reasons, but if other big acquisitions in the AI era teach us anything, developers are about to get a whole lot of free and discounted trial credits.

That’s at least a plus. I will happily burn through as much VC money as they will give me to tinker with my projects.

I hope they're good stewards. This reminds me of the Microsoft GitHub acquisition in terms of the importance to the broader community.

I have never seen an acquisition be good for the users. I struggle to believe this one will be different

The companies have aligned incentives so I don't think this is a terrible acquisition for customers.

the title of this post is misleading… “in talks” != not “agrees”

I’ve asked ChatGPT etc a few times how Hugging Face makes money. Never quite got to understanding . Good for them.

What is the business model of hugging face? My understanding was they were basically just a file hosting platform.

Fix your title it's not finalized yet!

Its becoming impossible to track all the acquisitions.

I really wonder why Nvidia would do this.

Hold on, these say no deal has been reached yet.

This is huge!

um um um um do we want nvidia to be on the same network as hugging face given the recent incidents?

whoa

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tldr: the marketplace for opensource models became wide open