My fear is that these large "AI" companies will lobby to have these open source options removed or banned, growing concern. I'm not sure how else to explain how much I enjoy using what HF provides, I religiously browse their site for new and exciting models to try.
How do you choose which models to try for which workflows? Do you have objective tests that you run, or do you just get a feel for them while using them in your daily workflow?
ModelScope is the Chinese equivalent of Hugging Face and a good back up. All the open models are Chinese anyways
They can try. I don't think they'll be able to get the toothpaste back in the tube. The data will just move our of the country.