alt Hacker NewsTranslation: Gervanov's ggml.ai was acquired by Huggingface in Feb 2026, so he is now "excited about the journey" after the Huggingface acquisition by Nvidia.
Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models?
Why would Nvidia increase GPU efficiency for local models? Surely they'll operate like athletes and only establish a new record from time to time when necessary.
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Why would they not? The cost to do that is 0.000001% of whatever numbers they usually work with. The upside is that it creates a community of hobbyists, most of whom will us (consummer grade) Nvidia GPUs. Which are not a significant source of revenue for Nvidia anymore, but it’s nice to have a bit of insurance.
> Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models?
Hedging against a data center bubble burst or at least massive pullback
Trivial for them to cut margin on desktop cards and clean up/prop up falling data center sales serving the hungry gamer, blockchain, local AI that's been sitting on its hands the last year or two
Nvidia is the PC ecosystem's best answer to Apple
> Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models?
The first reply on the X thread is by Gerardo Delgado, who is "Sr. Director of Product - Local AI, Creators, Developers @NVIDIA" according to his profile. In his post, he says "My team's goal at NVIDIA is to grow Local AI."