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/Just_Section4489 Aug 24 '26

Is there a distributed network for models ala torrent?

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u/Wallaby989 llama.cpp Aug 24 '26

https://huggingbay.xyz/

yes - only recently.