Everyone knows the open-weight model pitch by now: companies can download the weights, customize them, run them on infrastructure of their choosing, and retain far greater control over where their data is processed — often at a much lower cost than using proprietary models. Moreover, open-weight models are now thought to trail the leading frontier models by only around four to five months . Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, is betting heavily on that future. In early September, it agreed to acquire Hugging Face — the sprawling “GitHub for AI” that hosts more than three million models...

Source: The New Stack