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kostakoff 
posted an update 3 days ago
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Canceling My Pro Subscription

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.
el4

amen
Bc-AI

I hate NVIDIA is a valid reason lol. I dont like the sound of this either, so if they introduce any new paywalls im out entirely, other alternatives exist

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cinnavun

No paywalls just likely:

  1. More funneling people towards cloud compute
  2. More aggressive Data creep and telemetry infused into everything because they sell- er i mean "share non-sensitive data" with their partners
  • Nvidia already routes contact info through identity-enrichment vendors like 6Sense and Leadspace to append job title, company, and industry, and shares hashed identifiers with ad providers - add that onto HF's user graph and you have the highest-value B2B lead-gen database in existence. Paying $13 billion for a company doing $150 million a year in revenue makes more sense as an acquisition of 18 million developer accounts whose activity constitute a map of who is building what in AI.
  1. The slow erosion and deprecation of formats and runtimes that don't require or privilege the hardware they're selling.
    No obvious sabotage needs to happen, the decisions will be be as subtle as llama.cpp ignoring pull-requests that improve compatibility and performance with AVX, while merging PRs that boost performance and reduce friction for CUDA (just a theoretical example)
Lintrarius

I support this. Thank you for speaking openly about it.
This is very disturbing news. Even Huang’s statement on the matter speaks volumes: there’s not a single word about people — only “companies” and “institutions.” The whole thing has an unpleasant undertone.
inikishev

Jensen Huang
Bc-AI

i hope an alternative appears soon in case hugging face goes south

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yano2mch

The sheer amount of storage and bandwidth... can't be cheap. ROM sites to keep up i heard can be a few thousand a month and those are insignificant in size comparison to AI models.
DogOnKeyboard

Ok, so where are we going?

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athaze
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edited 1 day ago

modelscope this been alternative i ibeen keeping an eye out just in case
its from the Qwen team (Alibaba)
wayneworkman2012

NVIDIA has openly supported open weights models. I am interested to see how the community evolves.
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