Linus Torvalds: 'Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with'
replyHis other comments on Nvidia often contain expletives.
Linus isn't wrong but at the same time NV has shipped more compute than AMD and Intel combined to consumers. The kind of performance I get out of a modest outlay never ceases to amaze me.
replySales volume has no correlation with how good a company is for an ecosystem. See Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Sony, and so on.
replyNV is a very different beast from all of those. I have yet to regret buying any of their products and I wouldn't touch your list with a stolen 10' pole.
replyIn fairness, most of those comments were made before Nvidia capitulated in the EGLStream war and released open kernel modules.
replyIsn't it super easy for the community to just replace HuggingFace? Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models? Why is it even worth anything?
reply> Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models?
replyNo, its not just a repo/index (they also have training, inference hosting, and they develop/maintain a bunch of core AI infrastructure software), and even if it was just a repo/index, replacing a bug centralized repo/index that used by an large community isn’t trivial.
Not just a repo/index but they also offer reasonably-priced compute, with a free tier not to sniff at, on which to run the models.
replyNetwork effects. It's like a social network for LLM nerds as well as hosting and rating models, etc.
replyIt also means that finding models that aren't "approved" will be dealt by other websites.
replygood or bad, it comes down to a financial decision. Nvidia was willing to offer the highest bidding price, and HF was willing to sell.
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