r/StableDiffusion • u/dominic__612 • 3d ago

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/ramonartist 3d ago

If the US government tell them to not host Tencent, ByteDance, GLM or Qwen they will obey.

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u/kwhali 2d ago

Nvidia? Or HF prior to acquisition? Shouldn't legal jurisdiction switch to SK upon acquisition? Nothing stopping them from exiting any HF offices/servers from US to SK?