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Posted by mfiguiere 9 hours ago

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B(www.businessinsider.com)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in...

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alansaber 7 hours ago|
Great for Nvidia. Bad for the rest of us. Oh well, so much for hugging face.
rjzzleep 8 hours ago||
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.

RachelF 8 hours ago||
Linus Torvalds: 'Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with'

His other comments on Nvidia often contain expletives.

jacquesm 8 hours ago|||
Linus isn't wrong but at the same time NV has shipped more compute than AMD and Intel combined to consumers. The kind of performance I get out of a modest outlay never ceases to amaze me.
nik282000 7 hours ago||
Sales volume has no correlation with how good a company is for an ecosystem. See Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Sony, and so on.
jacquesm 6 hours ago||
NV is a very different beast from all of those. I have yet to regret buying any of their products and I wouldn't touch your list with a stolen 10' pole.
bigyabai 8 hours ago|||
In fairness, most of those comments were made before Nvidia capitulated in the EGLStream war and released open kernel modules.
sfblah 8 hours ago|||
Isn't it super easy for the community to just replace HuggingFace? Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models? Why is it even worth anything?
dragonwriter 7 hours ago|||
> Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models?

No, its not just a repo/index (they also have training, inference hosting, and they develop/maintain a bunch of core AI infrastructure software), and even if it was just a repo/index, replacing a bug centralized repo/index that used by an large community isn’t trivial.

zapzupnz 8 hours ago||||
Not just a repo/index but they also offer reasonably-priced compute, with a free tier not to sniff at, on which to run the models.
esseph 8 hours ago|||
Network effects. It's like a social network for LLM nerds as well as hosting and rating models, etc.
keyle 8 hours ago|||
It also means that finding models that aren't "approved" will be dealt by other websites.
fhe 8 hours ago||
good or bad, it comes down to a financial decision. Nvidia was willing to offer the highest bidding price, and HF was willing to sell.
zx8080 7 hours ago||
That's a great news for a few rich wallets and bad for all of us.
stackghost 8 hours ago||
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.

discodave 5 hours ago||
Pretty sure Nvidias dream is that OpenAI and Anthropic get into a hacking war using Nvidia cards.

The problem for them is that the leading provider of training and inference is actually AWS...

jacquesm 7 hours ago|||
That is a very good point. I will set aside some storage and download those models that I think are most at risk from a corporate clean-up action.
anon291 7 hours ago||
I don't think nvda has ever pushed the idea that ai is too powerful for regular people.

That's the anthropics and openais of the world.

heliosAtwork 6 hours ago||
Brilliant replacement of http://build.nvidia.com to increase developer reach and deployment of nvidia open models!
alberth 8 hours ago||
I wonder if OpenRouter being acquired was a catalyst for this deal.
user- 8 hours ago||
Its becoming impossible to track all the acquisitions.
ericel123 3 hours ago||
Is it because OpenAI hacked it? :)
jadar 8 hours ago||
Hold on, these say no deal has been reached yet.
missingpackage 8 hours ago|
Nvidia has already a good free offer with Nim and a lot of compute power available. Plus, they obviously have interest in spreading open models culture.
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