Checking it out!
First impression, omg i hate the cursor on the main page, why is it so laggy in brave browser lmao? anyways:
The model beta looks great tho, very HF cloney <3
Wonder how you plan on getting around security issues when it comes to peer-to-peer, you would need to get model publishers to post PGP signatures or Content ID's via IPFS or something. Otherwise a torrent becomes just another untrusted torrent kinda thing. Probably requires some backend to be implemented.
Model cards shouldnt be a pop-up i feel like. I mean, its great that you can access the file you want faster by making it a popup. But a lot of models have really detailed model cards that would look and feel better in full window. Maybe diversify from the original HF clone and add a whole new full window button for details, instructions, intro from the devs, etc?
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Its a huge conflict of interest. Their literal business model is cloud-based inference and any local usage is bad for their business. Per US law (fiduciary duty) they are in fact obligated to care in the best interest of their shareholders profits and do something about these local models they now host...
There is no way this ends well for the open source local inference community that used to be HF.
NVidia owning HuggingFace is a direct conflict of interest.
Their entire AI bet relies on people using cloud-based payed solutions through API's and tokens. If OpenAI and Anthropic died tomorrow, Nvidia would be dead too. This acquisition is a tactic, it's a typical big-tech move called embrace-extend-extinguish.
Watch it happen, soon downloads and bandwidth will get throttled, ads will appear, searches will start hiding things, terms of service will change, PRO+ and API solutions will start getting pushed. You'll see. I dont trust this for one bit and am already looking for alternatives, peer to peer if needed.
How could you HF...
I'm officially canceling my Hugging Face Pro subscription today.
I supported this platform because it stood for true openness and neutrality. This acquisition by NVIDIA fundamentally changes that.
Here’s why I’m against this deal:
- Neutrality is dead. NVIDIA is a US-based company. This means US regulations will inevitably dictate platform policies, creating direct pressure on Chinese developers and anyone building open-weight models outside the US.
- Community over bureaucracy. NVIDIA is a massive, slow-moving corporation. This acquisition will likely drown the community in corporate processes and commercial interests. Soon, uploading a simple finetune might become a bureaucratic nightmare.
- Open vs. Proprietary. Hugging Face was built on open-source ideals. NVIDIA? They are a fiercely proprietary hardware company with a minimal track record of meaningful open-source contributions. They sell chips, not freedom.
- And to add insult to injury, NVIDIA has practically abandoned consumer RTX GPUs in 2026 to chase data center profits. Why would I pay them for "openness" when they've turned their back on the very developers who built this ecosystem?
I paid for openness. Not for a corporate takeover.
🤗 was about community.
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I don’t care if you love me or hate me – something about one of the most open community efforts ever to achieve the tagline “The community building the future“ getting gobbled up by a company that arguably is the biggest hardware monopoly that has ever existed strikes me as deeply unsettling. I don’t like monopolies, and that is that. The whole appeal of HF for me personally was always having a neutral location where anyone could develop, deploy, and test a model on their silicon of choice without being pushed into a single “official“ proprietary infrastructure stack.
I am not going to pretend that I would believe NVIDIA “open and independent“ is ever going to happen – hell we have all heard the same lines dozens of times from every corporation that has ever uttered them before.
When the single biggest producer of compute also is one of the primary locations where all open weights live, it becomes very hard not to imagine where all of this is going to end up soon enough if we continue to let companies dictate the narrative. It might be the hyperbole but it is an absolute truth for me – open-sourced AI cannot be a slave to the whims of a trillion dollar company. It is high time we realize that open AI cannot live and breathe only on the goodwill of corporate entities.
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