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I don't really understand why the AI equivalent of Maven Central is worth 12.9 billion dollars but maybe I'm an idiot.

Network effect.

Same reason why Github (fancy file storage website) was worth $7B+

What data can an be extracted from hf though? With GitHub you get a lot of user behavior analysis and can offer enterprise features and see private repositories.

The users are the product.

I get that concept, but what part of the user is the product at HF? Even openrouter I get because at least it's a broker of all the user's information. HF to me is a glorified file host with no private user data access, no complex user interaction, etc.

It feels like nvidia has money to burn and just wants to make sure they control the portal to open models in case it could benefit them at an unknown point in the future.

Its a s3 wrapper. Can be replaced by a wordpress with torrents too. But they built an ecosystem around it and some libs/content. i guess thats what nvidia value

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