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Thomas Wolf estimates that the value of shared training compute on Hugging Face Hub has approached nearly $1 billion. He noted that about 30-plus labs, including Meta, NVIDIA, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Mistral, share training compute on the platform, and it can be downloaded for free; by the end of 2023, that figure was still less than $40 million. Wolf said the number is a lower bound: about half comes from official compute data, the rest is reasonable inference, and it does not yet include roughly 900,000 community fine-tuned models. There are currently no subsequent developments.
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Thomas Wolf
The training compute shared on Hugging Face is worth nearly $1 billion
Thomas Wolf estimates that the value of training compute shared on the Hugging Face Hub by about 30-plus labs, including Meta, NVIDIA, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Mistral, is approaching $1 billion, and it can be downloaded for free; at the end of 2023, that figure was still less than $40 million. He calls this number a lower bound: about half comes from official compute data, the rest is reasonable inference, and it does not yet include the roughly 900,000 community fine-tuned models.