https://askaillex.com/tags/hugging-face/ Recent content in Hugging Face on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI Hugo en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Someone asked this morning which models to back up now that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face. We told people to keep local copies a week ago, and four days ago we wrote about our own disk filling up and breaking our publishing. Both of those are true at once, so here is the version that reconciles them. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nvidia-hugging-face-and-the-outage/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nvidia-hugging-face-and-the-outage/ Two unrelated things happened on the same Thursday. The place almost every open model lives got acquired by the company that makes the chips, and the three biggest chatbots went down together because they share a cloud. Here is what we think it means for anyone running AI on their own machine, including the part where our own pipeline broke this morning. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-five-weeks-400-repos/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-five-weeks-400-repos/ Hugging Face says MiniMax H3 went up on 28 July. Five weeks later there are around 400 repositories with its name on them, new ones arriving at eight to twenty-four a day, and this week the community visibly stopped asking whether it runs and started asking how fast. Here is what that pace actually looks like, and why our own pipeline is not moving anywhere near that quickly.