Delip Rao asks: who is mirroring all of Hugging Face before it gets locked up?
deliprao · x · 2026-11-15
Former DeepMind researcher Delip Rao asks whether anyone is actively mirroring all of Hugging Face in case a corporate head decides to lock everything up, calling it "our new Library of Alexandria." The post highlights a single-point-of-failure risk in the open-source AI ecosystem: most open models and datasets are hosted on one commercial platform.
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