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Hugging Face Hub models represent nearly $1B in shared training compute

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Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face's CEO, estimates that Meta, NVIDIA, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Mistral and about 30 other labs have shared close to $1B of training compute on the Hub. He says that figure is a floor, with about half from official compute numbers and the rest educated guesses, and that it excludes roughly 900k community fine-tunes. He puts the end-2023 total under $40M.

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Fun and crazy napkin math: Meta, NVIDIA, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Mistral and ~30 other labs have shared close to $1B worth of training compute on the Hugging Face Hub

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End of 2023 it was under $40M

Wikipedia was written in volunteer hours. This AI age commons is written in GPU-hours and data

(it's a floor btw: about half comes from official compute numbers rest is educated guess and it still miss the ~900k community fine-tunes)

Space with data to explore: https://thomwolf-hub-dollars.static.hf.space

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