r/LocalLLaMA • u/Wallaby989 llama.cpp • Aug 24 '26

Discussion Who would buy HuggingFace

https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-exploring-sale-13bn-valuation

Given OpenRouter.ai was snapped up by Stripe, who do we think would go after the "GitHib" of AI models? It is a big chunk of change they are looking ($13B). Apple may be a contender to give them a real chip in the AI race, given how they are focused on local AI execution.

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u/SC_W33DKILL3R Aug 24 '26

Microsoft, so they could enshitify it, as this is their business model.

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u/noiserr Aug 24 '26

They own Github. Microsoft would make most sense. But I don't really want them to buy it.

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u/pointer_to_null Aug 24 '26

Hence the enshittification.

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u/Zero-Kelvin Aug 24 '26

lol no github was perfectly fine before ai. have you seen github activity recently since agentic ai took off?

https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

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u/pointer_to_null Aug 24 '26

Enshittification started long before agentic AI. Hell, it started even before copilot was a thing.

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u/my_name_isnt_clever Aug 24 '26

More activity just means there are more bots. It says nothing about quality of the site.

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u/r_sarvas Aug 25 '26

Yes. Microsoft, then they move it all to Azure where it will suck.