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Not really. GitHub has a strong platform of paying customers and a solid product that’s hard to replicate.

Google is obvious.

Hugging Face is a file download mirror with a couple of side features dangling off.

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Whether you realize it or not Hugging Face's monetization is just as obvious as GitHub's
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They hit 150 million in annual recurring revenue this year.

Pretty nice dangling side features apparently.

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That still leaves the company valued at 86 years of revenue
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Yeah, great point. Nvidia could potentially be overpaying. Not sure how that equates to Huggingface being "a file download mirror with a couple of side features dangling off".
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