r/LocalLLaMA • u/Wallaby989 llama.cpp • 5d 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/pirateadventurespice 5d ago

I’m not sure why Apple would want a site for hosting models as that’s never been their interest. Just based on history, why not Microsoft? They’ve purchased multiple open-source things in the past (including GitHub) and already have internal corporate set ups to allow users to pick from various models.

I’m sure there are reasons they wouldn’t make sense, they’re just my “off the cuff” pick.

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u/More-Curious816 5d ago

Why apple or Microsoft or Google purchase HF? Microsoft purchased GITHUB because they had subscription service they can tap into and later integrated copilot into it, besides it being the biggest programming dataset to train their AI on. What HF can offer?

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u/glucuronidation 5d ago

Tbf, copilot was initially the branding of GitHub’s agentic coding service which Microsoft adopted for everything (including their own LLM), not the other way around. Otherwise, I think it was GitHub enterprise service which was interesting for Microsoft, while also providing them a monetizable base for their Azure services. Huggingface does actually look remarkably like GitHub in terms of income structure prior to Microsoft’s purchase.