| ▲ | sfblah 11 hours ago | |
Isn't it super easy for the community to just replace HuggingFace? Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models? Why is it even worth anything? | ||
| ▲ | dragonwriter 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models? No, its not just a repo/index (they also have training, inference hosting, and they develop/maintain a bunch of core AI infrastructure software), and even if it was just a repo/index, replacing a bug centralized repo/index that used by an large community isn’t trivial. | ||
| ▲ | zapzupnz 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Not just a repo/index but they also offer reasonably-priced compute, with a free tier not to sniff at, on which to run the models. | ||
| ▲ | esseph 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Network effects. It's like a social network for LLM nerds as well as hosting and rating models, etc. | ||