Unverified claim: NVIDIA bought Hugging Face, as 'Hugging Bay' torrent site for open LLMs takes off
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-09-13
An unverified post claims NVIDIA has acquired Hugging Face, warning that censorship of open, uncensored AI models could accelerate as a result. In response, the poster points to 'Hugging Bay', a new project dubbed 'The Pirate Bay for open LLMs' that distributes model weights via torrents. The acquisition has no official confirmation — treat as rumor.
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