Remember, the whole AI scheme exists to take the very concept of ownership from us. This takeover is hostile.

They should put up a back up torrent of all the currently available models before transferring ownership. Thus opening the doors for future websites.

NVIDIA is probably trying to shutdown the LLM-at-home market (which means you don't need huge clouds of graphics cards or even an Internet connection). Sad day for people who like to control their data.

We just can't have nice things can we.

I fail to understand the use of the term open source when the resource itself can be bought by oligarchs. Like organic vegetables, or clean coal.

The core llama.cpp maintainers also work at HF and will now work for Nvidia I guess. Llama.cpp is a pretty significant part of the local LLM stack, especially since other tools like Ollama and LMStudio are just GUIs built on top.

Local LLMs have gotten to the point where they are a serious threat to Anthropic and OpenAI, and Nvidia has a lot of skin in the game. If Nvidia wanted to do some serious damage to local LLMs, they are now in a position to do so.

I’m also imagining they may try to squeeze out support for other GPU vendors. I’m using an AMD 7900 XTX to run Qwen 3.8 27B that I downloaded from HF to run on llama.cpp, which currently works like a dream. The 7900 XTX is the only sanely priced 24GB GPU left in 2026 (under $1k vs. $2k, $3k, $4k for Nvidia 24-32GB cards). Combined with OpenCode or Pi, a setup like this basically eliminates the need to use Anthropic or OpenAI products in the same way Jellyfin eliminates the need to use streaming services.

I’m sure Nvidia and their buddies don’t like one thing I’ve said in this comment and may very well be plotting to put a stop to it, so the community may need to step up our game and get our eggs out of the big tech basket.

Get ready for the model purge

So they are just slapping random price tags on things now. It's a database of AI questions. They have paid 13 billion dollars for a database, and everyone's acting like that's a perfectly rational sensible thing to do. No one in the financial industry has any sense anymore.

A company that's only product is something that people either don't want or actively hate has paid an eye-watering amount of money for a database to train their product on, this training will have no effect whatsoever on whether people want it.

I have this nice bridge with lots of training examples if anybody's interested, 100 trillion dollars please

Real money or pretend AI money

Ed Zitron is going to have an aneurysm.

Ok, how come these public utility databases are owned to be sold like that eg gitgub, twitter without any regulator pushback? Oh yea...

Ahhhh, this is what they meant by "the circular economy"

Fuck

My question is what their motivation is.

• Do they want to close down open models so more is directed at the frontier/closed companies (OpenAI/Anthropic)?
• Or are they trying to diversify and push open models as a safety net for when the bubble bursts

Oh no we have to get decent local models from somewhere else now.

And this will be why the Chinese models will win.

I know huggingface. I don't know of anything they sell, though.

Buys what?

ELI5 huggingface?

The Ouroboros must be fed!

It was only a matter of time

https://www.modelscope.cn/home

Not as many (old?) models though. https://presenc.ai/research/modelscope-vs-huggingface-2026

Anybody got a good list of models we should download right now before they start disappearing?

One of the few AI orgs of note outside of China and the US. What's left? Black Forest?