My fear is that these large "AI" companies will lobby to have these open source options removed or banned, growing concern. I'm not sure how else to explain how much I enjoy using what HF provides, I religiously browse their site for new and exciting models to try.
replyThey can try. I don't think they'll be able to get the toothpaste back in the tube. The data will just move our of the country.
replyModelScope is the Chinese equivalent of Hugging Face and a good back up. All the open models are Chinese anyways
replyNot true! Mistral is really really good, but I agree that there isn't a single decent open model from the USA.
replyMistral is cool and I wish them success but it consistently ranks extremely low on benchmarks while still being expensive. Chinese models like DeepSeek might rank almost as low as Mistral but they are significantly cheaper. And Kimi is the best of both worlds with incredible benchmark results while still being incredibly cheap
replyI know things change rapidly so I'm not counting them out quite yet but I don't see them as a serious contender currently
Yup, I have downloaded probably a terabyte in the last week, especially with the Step 3.5 model being released and Minimax quants. I wonder what my ISP thinks. I hope they don't cut me off. They gave me a fast lane, they better let me use it, lol
replyEven fairly restrictive data caps are in the range of 6 Tb per month. P2P at a mere 100 Mb works out to 1 TiB per 24 hours.
replyHypothetically my ISP will sell me unmetered 10 Gb service but I wonder if they would actually make good on their word ...
Bandwidth is not that expensive. The Big 3 clouds just want to milk customers via egress. Look at Hetzner or CloudFlare R2 if you want to get get an idea of commodity bandwidth costs.
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