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Forgive me for the somewhat disparaging comment, but Gradio's product seems very basic to be. Can anyone shed some light on why HF felt the need to acquire them
by Reubend 5y ago
Forgive me for the somewhat disparaging comment, but Gradio's product seems very basic to be. Can anyone shed some light on why HF felt the need to acquire them, rather than to just build their own version? Is there really so much complexity there that it was quicker to just acquire?
- nerdponx 5y agoMaybe it's an "acqui-hire".
- laGrenouille 5y agoI agree about the product; perhaps they were acquired for the people rather than the actual IP. Would make sense from that perspective for HF, which has leaned strongly in the text direction, if they want to expand in the AI space.
- minimaxir 5y agoHF has expanded beyond text into image/video; gradio can do multimedia I/O.
- roseway4 5y agoPossibly an acquihire? Pure conjecture: They may have had difficulty competing with Streamlit[0] and decided to throw in the towel. [0] https://streamlit.io/ https://streamlit.io/
- oh_sigh 5y agoConsider that they could have been bought for $1.
- andreyk 5y agoGradio is already integrated to some extent to HF's platform, and nothing is as trivial to build as it seems. So it just made sense to buy an existing refined solution and to hit the ground running rather than build from scratch.