No, what? Did they just do this to make Chinese models harder to acquire outside of China?

Great for Nvidia. Bad for the rest of us. Oh well, so much for hugging face.

That's a great news for a few rich wallets and bad for all of us.

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.

Brilliant replacement of http://build.nvidia.com to increase developer reach and deployment of nvidia open models!

HuggingFace offers abliterated/uncensored models, which would seem to run contrary to the "AI is too powerful for regular people" narrative that the big players are pushing.

My primary concern is that Nvidia will bow to the pressure and restrict abliterated/uncensored models on HF.

I wonder if OpenRouter being acquired was a catalyst for this deal.

Is it because OpenAI hacked it? :)

Its becoming impossible to track all the acquisitions.

Monumental implications on OS