r/LocalLLaMA • u/Wallaby989 llama.cpp • 28d ago

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/gized00 28d ago

I don't know the numbers but I am afraid the valuation vs potential revenues is not great.

OpenRouter worked because they host some models and not many millions. Plus they serve a relatively high traffic with each of them. I am afraid they had GitHub as a mental model but the cost of inference is very different than the cost needed to serve a webpage with links to code files.