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chews 5 hours ago

I don’t think many realize how hard it is to raise for a no revenue company that isn’t buying out large GPU contracts and racking machines.

They have a winning product for sure… the worlds models have chosen a hugging face workflow, but honestly where would they be able to find the revenue required to justify another couple rounds at ever higher valuations.

To me, I think these folks see that the music is getting harder to hear and might stop entirely, might as well cash out. I do hope their employees were well taken care of, and 13b of NVDA is likely to be worth a lot more in the coming years.

sealthedeal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed. Take a ~$13bn buyout im sure cash and stock is the smartest thing to do for a company their size and age. Take the profits now and keep building securely. I imagine their employees very much gotten taken care of. Jensen mentioned an additional $1bn in cash compensation etc to keep employees at HF.

willy_k 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> To me, I think these folks see that the music is getting harder to hear and might stop entirely

At the frontier companies, but not for hugging face or nvidia. Their business are going to be around for a while considering how local models are performing now.

dragandj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think local models would require hardware at nearly the scale that the datacenter buildout for OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. required. Nvidia got as high as the Icarus, it will be hard not to melt, despite they being a real company with real product that is so in demand that you can't buy their hardware even when you're willing to pay above the recommended price. They are addicted to billions, and the cold turkey clean-up will be painful as hell.

slowin 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What is hugging face's business? I thought they were just free model hosting.

fennecbutt an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Data. Loooads of data for Nvidia. And an audience.

retinaros 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Selling pro accounts for storage. Its at best a few ten millions arr maybe 100-150