Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😢
I know huggingface. I don’t know of anything they sell, though.
Neither does github
Buys what?
Ahhhh, this is what they meant by “the circular economy”
Ed Zitron is going to have an aneurysm.
Remember, the whole AI scheme exists to take the very concept of ownership from us. This takeover is hostile.
To the one Downvoter I’m curious, why are you such a little bitch?
There are worse things than copyrights not mattering anymore.
Forget about rights as a whole for us plebs.
We just can’t have nice things can we.
HuggingBay to the rescue 🏴☠️
You wouldn’t pirate a model
oh that’s actually a thing, neat
They should put up a back up torrent of all the currently available models before transferring ownership. Thus opening the doors for future websites.
NVIDIA is probably trying to shutdown the LLM-at-home market (which means you don’t need huge clouds of graphics cards or even an Internet connection). Sad day for people who like to control their data.
I heard somewhere they are buying it because their own development platform sucks. So they are going to replace it with hugging face.
Which doesn’t preclude them from locking all the good stuff behind a subscription, of course.
Before any of these news I would use modelscope occasionally, it is the same thing as huggingface but Chinese and with a massive collection of mcp servers. Although they do not have the same amount of merged and fine tuned models, they are still a pretty good service
I fail to understand the use of the term open source when the resource itself can be bought by oligarchs. Like organic vegetables, or clean coal.
I’ve downloaded a terabyte worth of models and didn’t pay a cent. storage and bandwidth cost money
Real money or pretend AI money
That’s the neat thing, none of it’s real, and the AI investment bubble is going to make that very clear in the near future.
Oh no we have to get decent local models from somewhere else now.
this site seems to be better than others ive seen : https://llama.garden/
complaints - the torrents are packs of all different quants … or some are just safetensor files.
The Ouroboros must be fed!
And this will be why the Chinese models will win.
https://www.modelscope.cn/home
Not as many (old?) models though. https://presenc.ai/research/modelscope-vs-huggingface-2026
AFAIK that’s about 2 weeks revenue. IDK what their profit margin is, but I bet it’s high.
