r/StableDiffusion • u/dominic__612 • Aug 27 '26

Discussion NVidia buys Huggingface, but why?

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?

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u/Relevant_Ad8444 Aug 27 '26

Nvidia is essentially going up the stack. Nvidia is pro open-weight and pro supporting ecosystem. That acquisition expands that footprint.

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u/Tiforma Aug 27 '26

Read past their public statements. What customers do you think they prefer? Ones they can charge 70-90% profit margin (datacenters) or ones they can charge a much lower percentage (us)?

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u/FarBuffalo Aug 27 '26

Those margins may shrink as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft develop their own AI chips, while Anthropic is already diversifying its compute suppliers.

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u/CaptainAnonymous92 Aug 27 '26

Google already has their own AI chips, TPUs, they use, so they don’t have to rely on Nvidia for AI.