Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?

skyberrys · 2026-08-29T15:03:11.000000Z

Does the acquisition mean hugging face will stop hosting open models though? I'll check out the alternatives mentioned here too. Don't open weight models also self host too?

toomuchtodo · 2026-08-27T16:56:06.000000Z

Build the equivalent of The Pirate Bay and AcademicTorrents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867720

https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-deepseek-ai-deepsee...

ThereAreOther1s · 2026-08-28T14:34:02.000000Z

Ollama, Replicate, Together.

Ollama is probably the most advanced but smallest library.

I think Ollama will probably step in and replace HF because they have always been first movers.

They did llama.cpp better than llama.cpp did llama.cpp and were very quick to bring highly usable prosumer solutions to market.

Why not GitHub or one of these wannabes like Tangled?

Seems perfect for Tangled - why not?

jharohit · 2026-08-28T06:46:27.000000Z

https://featherless.ai/

Use them as fallback to my Hermes. Honestly pretty amazing team!

cinntaile · 2026-08-29T14:55:04.000000Z

As I understand it, you're an investor in Featherless. It's good to mention that.

bigoranges · 2026-08-28T14:36:06.000000Z

Looks incredible. Love the web previews.

vipa123 · 2026-08-27T15:28:12.000000Z

Yeah, there is a great opportunity for someone else to rise in this space.

bigbadfeline · 2026-08-27T19:49:53.000000Z

rvz · 2026-08-27T14:56:55.000000Z

May I ask why?

biemone · 2026-08-27T15:01:33.000000Z

They're about to be acquired by Nvidia

browningstreet · 2026-08-27T15:28:41.000000Z

And..?

roosterIllusi0n · 2026-08-27T15:29:20.000000Z

They are about to be acquired by nvidia.

Haunt1000 · 2026-08-27T15:35:58.000000Z

I think the deeper question is how would they make money doing that?

dcrazy · 2026-08-27T16:16:11.000000Z

How has HF been making money so far?

Teknomadix · 2026-08-27T15:39:15.000000Z

Data.

dv_dt · 2026-08-27T23:13:51.000000Z

get acquired by amd?

CmonGoogle · 2026-08-27T23:56:49.000000Z

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nhgiang · 2026-08-28T02:34:31.000000Z

Absolute cinema