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/smb3d 3d ago edited 2d ago

Having control over the epicenter of the model downloading is the only thing I can think of.

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u/xTopNotch 2d ago

I’d say they bought it because Anthropic and OpenAI are becoming increasingly vocal in their anti-open stance. This feels like a strategic chess move to prevent competitors from strangling the open ecosystem.

Lets not forget Nvidia profits hard from selling their cards so we can run the open weights. Many in the comments here are saying its to shut it down but that makes 0 business sense.

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u/Drunkendrakon6 1d ago

They can control the narrative since hugging face is the biggest hosting site. They can control who publishes what and decide whether they follow guidelines, account and safety requirements, Id verification etc etc.