Hugging Face

“If you think otherwise, look no further than the Huggingface hack and what happens when they run completely autonomously.”

“Previously with non-gated models, you could download the XET files with any program, no special software needed.”

“if not for arxiv and huggingface, the field of ML would be nowhere near where it is today”

“How they host stuff and then leverage that position to build add-ons and lock-in, lobby for laws.”

“HuggingFace wasn't doing at all while also allowing any user's arbitrary programs to call out to the open web from prod”

“It is extremely embarrassing to get owned because you are letting arbitrary programs/users call out to the open web from the infra”

“nothing else has been as effective at accelerating model development and research sharing”

“an onerous license agreement that must be agreed to during registration and a bloated cli interface with loads of telemetry”

“use 3rd party marketplaces. cerebras is resold on vercel, openrouter and huggingface.”

“now the company that sells the GPUs also owns the registry that decides which models are easy to find and download”

“providing a sufficiently useful and general service that makes technology more accessible to all”

“I hooked up the settings to download models from Hugging Face conveniently”

“HF has become the front runner in open model hosting. They have a lot of trust from the wider community.”

“Their inference hosting is a joke (I don't think I ever had a working response from a "try this model" form).”

“HF has been a close part of my ML/AI career, coinciding exactly when I moved into this space 10 years ago.”

“building such a huge AI community around a single place is probably impossible by now”

“Combined with recent acquisition of OpenRouter we see exactly what we were increasingly concerned about”

“This acquisition will likely solidify this general stance, reduce free compute allowance for a subscription, cap downloads”

“pulling models is an absolute nightmare when I basically have to use HF and even with a token getting throttled”

“Brilliant replacement of http://build.nvidia.com to increase developer reach and deployment of nvidia open models”

“they also have training, inference hosting, and they develop/maintain a bunch of core AI infrastructure software”

“the pricing of tokens on places like HuggingFace and OpenRouter suggests that probably isn't true”

“Huggingface for a serious service has never felt truly serious to me for reasons like these.”

“One good way to find inference providers for open models is through hugging face”

“I am not aware of any alternative for choosing and downloading the right model for local inference that is superior to using directly the Huggingface site”

“who already did all the setup for you and just waits for your credit card per minute/seconds/token”

“Huggingface, Swartz et al have done more social/political good for this world than billions have.”

“The red/yellow/green indicators on huggingface.co are kind of nice, but you only know for sure when you try to load the model”

“I went with Hugging Face mainly because it is simple and already handles distribution and versioning”

“Getting stuff to run before huggingface and uv and docker containers with cuda was way worse.”

“The other nice part of huggingface's setup is you can add theoretical hardware and search that way too.”

“And I said all of that despite us continuing to use their platform and libraries extensively…”

“Freemium seems to be working pretty well for them—what's the alternative website, after all. They seem to command their niche.”

“HF is super valuable with their transformers library, their code, tutorials, smol-models, etc”

“one of the few quiet heroes (along with Chinese OSS) helping bring on-premise AI to the masses”

“Hugging Face has large number of coding models that you can download for free”

“benchmark the models you could run on your potential hardware on (neo) cloud provider like HuggingFace”

“there's places (hugging face?) that will host and run your updated model for cheaper than you could run it yourself”

“There are plenty of models on HuggingFace that I can run on my Mac Studio”

“All the data used by Apertus is just data processed or generated by American companies(NVidia, Apple and huggingface mostly).”