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They are the primary service for this. That comes with an audience and a lot of data.

I only learned about their CDN and protocol called Xet a couple of days ago https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/xet/index That puts it in the Cloudflare of AI models category.

They offer inference, too. I don't know anyone who uses this service, but presumably it must be reasonably popular.

This is the most compelling case I've come across:

tldr; Acquisition is an option on Hugging Face becoming the distribution and data-creation infrastructure for open physical AI.