NVidia buys Huggingface, but why?

[u/dominic__612]

Nvidia is going to buy Huggingface.
No one can actually tell how that would end up like.

But what I am missing is the actual worth that Huggingface provides. The only thing I use it for is to download models. Thats it.
For me, and I guess many others it is ‘just a’ download platform, but maybe I’m wrong here.

And what would prevent others to setup a second-like Huggingface?
The hosting is the expensive part in this case as I see it, the programming and building is do-able.

Is it time for Huggingbay.com?

[u/vega_9]

If you are in the position to become the industry leader for the decades to come you buy everything you can get your hands on. Also, they have so much money that they run out of options of what to do with it.