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Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?

23 points by FireUpTheTorren 21d ago

Where can I sign up to move away from HF?

vipa123 21d ago
Yeah, there is a great opportunity for someone else to rise in this space.
- bigbadfeline 21d ago
  p2p?
rvz 21d ago
May I ask why?
- biemone 21d ago
  They're about to be acquired by Nvidia
  - browningstreet 21d ago
    And..?
    - roosterIllusi0n 21d ago
      They are about to be acquired by nvidia.
      - Haunt1000 21d ago
        I think the deeper question is how would they make money doing that?
        Teknomadix 21d ago
        Data.
        dcrazy 21d ago
        How has HF been making money so far?
        dv_dt 21d ago
        get acquired by amd?
      - CmonGoogle 21d ago
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        nhgiang 21d ago
        Absolute cinema
toomuchtodo 21d ago
Build the equivalent of The Pirate Bay and AcademicTorrents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867720 https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-deepseek-ai-deepseek-v3-2 https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-deepseek-ai-deepsee...
tmpsvc2695f5 21d ago
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jharohit 20d ago
https://featherless.ai/ https://featherless.ai/ Use them as fallback to my Hermes. Honestly pretty amazing team!
- bigoranges 20d ago
  Looks incredible. Love the web previews.
- cinntaile 19d ago
  As I understand it, you're an investor in Featherless. It's good to mention that.
tmpsvc2695f5 20d ago
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ThereAreOther1s 20d ago
Ollama, Replicate, Together. Ollama is probably the most advanced but smallest library. I think Ollama will probably step in and replace HF because they have always been first movers. They did llama.cpp better than llama.cpp did llama.cpp and were very quick to bring highly usable prosumer solutions to market. Why not GitHub or one of these wannabes like Tangled? Seems perfect for Tangled - why not?
skyberrys 19d ago
Does the acquisition mean hugging face will stop hosting open models though? I'll check out the alternatives mentioned here too. Don't open weight models also self host too?
- LowTechHN 19d ago
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tmpsvc2695f5 18d ago
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dsk-dev-ai 18d ago
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just60sec 18d ago
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Where can I sign up to move away from HF?

vipa123 21d ago

Yeah, there is a great opportunity for someone else to rise in this space.

bigbadfeline 21d ago
p2p?

rvz 21d ago

May I ask why?

biemone 21d ago
They're about to be acquired by Nvidia
- browningstreet 21d ago
  And..?
  - roosterIllusi0n 21d ago
    They are about to be acquired by nvidia.
    - Haunt1000 21d ago
      I think the deeper question is how would they make money doing that?
      - Teknomadix 21d ago
        Data.
      - dcrazy 21d ago
        How has HF been making money so far?
      - dv_dt 21d ago
        get acquired by amd?
    - CmonGoogle 21d ago
      [flagged]
      - nhgiang 21d ago
        Absolute cinema

toomuchtodo 21d ago

Build the equivalent of The Pirate Bay and AcademicTorrents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867720 https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-deepseek-ai-deepseek-v3-2 https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-deepseek-ai-deepsee...

tmpsvc2695f5 21d ago

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jharohit 20d ago

https://featherless.ai/ https://featherless.ai/ Use them as fallback to my Hermes. Honestly pretty amazing team!

bigoranges 20d ago
Looks incredible. Love the web previews.
cinntaile 19d ago
As I understand it, you're an investor in Featherless. It's good to mention that.

tmpsvc2695f5 20d ago

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ThereAreOther1s 20d ago

Ollama, Replicate, Together. Ollama is probably the most advanced but smallest library. I think Ollama will probably step in and replace HF because they have always been first movers. They did llama.cpp better than llama.cpp did llama.cpp and were very quick to bring highly usable prosumer solutions to market. Why not GitHub or one of these wannabes like Tangled? Seems perfect for Tangled - why not?

skyberrys 19d ago

Does the acquisition mean hugging face will stop hosting open models though? I'll check out the alternatives mentioned here too. Don't open weight models also self host too?

LowTechHN 19d ago
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tmpsvc2695f5 18d ago

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dsk-dev-ai 18d ago

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just60sec 18d ago

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