I imagine it's just technical issues on the flip. It's also going to be interesting what happens to HF with loads of people downloading a many TB model. Even though almost no one has the capability to run it, it does seem like something to stash away in case it suddenly becomes unavailable due to government controls.

FWIW, China is suddenly talking about model export controls. It was one thing to release also-ran models, but now that they're pushing SOTA it's a different game.

> FWIW, China is suddenly talking about model export controls. ...

Thanks for the hint. It makes sense, even if the main driver for releasing the models is to reduce the market size for the US companies.

Do you have any sources?

Edit: "market size"

Honestly it's pretty wild that the standard way to download these isn't torrent instead of Hugging Face direct. Why doesn't HF themselves provide torrent links?