Hugging Face Sells for $12B and Model Uploaders Won't See a Dime
false79 · reddit · 2026-08-28
After reports of Hugging Face's $12B+ sale to Nvidia, Reddit is debating what uploaders get: teams like Qwen, Meta, Mistral and Unsloth spent heavily to train models shared free on HF, yet will receive nothing from the deal.
The poster questions the incentive to keep uploading, predicting a pessimistic scenario where 2026 becomes the last year of freely downloadable models and the weekly flood of new releases slows to a drip. He argues a better outcome would be donating $12B worth of GPU compute back to the community rather than another M&A win for NVDA shareholders.
Related event: NVIDIA Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for ~$12.9B(60 posts)→
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