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He/Him. I like LLM's and VLM's. I work with my other friends to make stuff. We are in year 7 and we are enthusiastic about AI. We are based in Australia 🇦🇺

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Hey everyone,

I just wanna say sorry about the change to G1.

I know a lot of you were really looking forward to the original 20B MoE, and honestly, I was really excited about it too.

Unfortunately, the free compute credits I was using from ML Intern Explorers were removed by Hugging Face. That changed what I can realistically do with the original plan, so I've decided to move G1 over to a Qwen 3.8 27B base instead. Its not just another finetune though, I am inserting extra layers and putting it through my vigourous pipeline. Results will be open source.

I know that's probably disappointing, especially for the people who were specifically waiting for the 20B MoE. I'm genuinely sorry about that.

I really appreciate everyone who got excited about G1 in the first place. I didn't expect this change either, but I'm still really excited to see where G1 can go from here.

The original G1 codebase will stay open too. Its under my profile: Bc-AI/train-g1

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replied to kostakoff's post about 21 hours ago

yep its good

replied to NitrAI's post about 23 hours ago

Everyone back up your data and get ready to platform hop if huggingface goes south

reacted to NitrAI's post with ❤️ about 23 hours ago

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My (really ugly) thoughts on NVIDIA acquiring Hugging Face
I don’t care if you love me or hate me – something about one of the most open community efforts ever to achieve the tagline “The community building the future“ getting gobbled up by a company that arguably is the biggest hardware monopoly that has ever existed strikes me as deeply unsettling. I don’t like monopolies, and that is that. The whole appeal of HF for me personally was always having a neutral location where anyone could develop, deploy, and test a model on their silicon of choice without being pushed into a single “official“ proprietary infrastructure stack.

I am not going to pretend that I would believe NVIDIA “open and independent“ is ever going to happen – hell we have all heard the same lines dozens of times from every corporation that has ever uttered them before.

When the single biggest producer of compute also is one of the primary locations where all open weights live, it becomes very hard not to imagine where all of this is going to end up soon enough if we continue to let companies dictate the narrative. It might be the hyperbole but it is an absolute truth for me – open-sourced AI cannot be a slave to the whims of a trillion dollar company. It is high time we realize that open AI cannot live and breathe only on the goodwill of corporate entities.

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replied to kostakoff's post 2 days ago

i hope an alternative appears soon in case hugging face goes south

reacted to kostakoff's post with 😔 2 days ago

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Canceling My Pro Subscription

I'm officially canceling my Hugging Face Pro subscription today.
I supported this platform because it stood for true openness and neutrality. This acquisition by NVIDIA fundamentally changes that.

Here’s why I’m against this deal:
- Neutrality is dead. NVIDIA is a US-based company. This means US regulations will inevitably dictate platform policies, creating direct pressure on Chinese developers and anyone building open-weight models outside the US.
- Community over bureaucracy. NVIDIA is a massive, slow-moving corporation. This acquisition will likely drown the community in corporate processes and commercial interests. Soon, uploading a simple finetune might become a bureaucratic nightmare.
- Open vs. Proprietary. Hugging Face was built on open-source ideals. NVIDIA? They are a fiercely proprietary hardware company with a minimal track record of meaningful open-source contributions. They sell chips, not freedom.
- And to add insult to injury, NVIDIA has practically abandoned consumer RTX GPUs in 2026 to chase data center profits. Why would I pay them for "openness" when they've turned their back on the very developers who built this ecosystem?

I paid for openness. Not for a corporate takeover.

🤗 was about community.