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  • i just read this: https://reddit.com/comments/1w01y1f

    With this move Nvidia is not only acquiring the HuggingFace platform, but they might also effectively acquire the copyright to the llama.cpp project, together with the entire team behind it.

    In February 2026 the llama.cpp team was employed by HF in order to continue working on llama.cpp and the ggml library.

    This includes:

    • Georgi Gerganov
    • Xuan-Son Nguyen
    • Aleksander Grygier
    • Victor Mustar
    • Lysandre
    • Julien Chaumond

    Now with the acquisition, llama.cpp’s future looks a lot less certain given Nvidia’s poor track record with open-source.

    This is still rather speculative at this stage, but it’s definitely possible for the llama.cpp project to change in the future: either by switching to a different license, or by having staff redirected to other projects within the larger company.

    Even when a project is open-source the copyright owner has complete control over it, and they can change licensing as they wish.

    This has happened before with projects like Redis, Minio, and others.

    Source:

    https://huggingface.co/blog/ggml-joins-hf

    Edit:

    The original announcement from Feb 2026 from Gerganov gives a few more details:

    https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759


















  • im not bothered by it.
    but also… i wouldn’t use it as my sole model to perform every task. [waves hand toward huggingface.] ( a gazillion bajillion models, specialized for all types of tasks).

    edit: i checked. and there aren’t as many models as i expected, for this task(didnt test them). and… small multimodal model failed badly(see picture of the iguana … or whatever the hell that is)
    it’s a strange benchmark. but it seems reasonable to expect LLMs to be able to do this.