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It's insane how much traffic HF must be pushing out of the door. I routinely download models that are hundreds of gigabytes in size from them. A fantastic servi
by Tepix 8mo ago
It's insane how much traffic HF must be pushing out of the door. I routinely download models that are hundreds of gigabytes in size from them. A fantastic service to the sovererign AI community.
- vardalab 8mo agoYup, I have downloaded probably a terabyte in the last week, especially with the Step 3.5 model being released and Minimax quants. I wonder what my ISP thinks. I hope they don't cut me off. They gave me a fast lane, they better let me use it, lol
- fc417fc802 8mo agoEven fairly restrictive data caps are in the range of 6 Tb per month. P2P at a mere 100 Mb works out to 1 TiB per 24 hours. Hypothetically my ISP will sell me unmetered 10 Gb service but I wonder if they would actually make good on their word ...
- 3eb7988a1663 8mo agoI have a 1.2TB cap before you start getting charged extra, so you might need to recalibrate your restrictive level.
- fc417fc802 8mo agoIs that with a WISP by chance? Or in a developing country? Or are there really wired providers with such low caps in the western world in this day and age?
- nagaiaida 8mo agowell it's my wired cap a stone's throw from buildings with google cloud logos on the side in a major us city, so...
- zargon 8mo agoComcast.
- Zetaphor 8mo agoATT once told me if I don't pay for their TV service then my home gigabit fiber would have a 1TB cap. They had an agreement with the apartment building so I had no other choice of provider.
- fc417fc802 8mo agoBuy our off brand netflix or else we'll make it so you can't watch netflix. How is that legal?
- Zetaphor 8mo agoThe law is written by the highest bidder, and the telecom lobbyists are very generous
- razster 8mo agoMy 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.
- culi 8mo agoModelScope is the Chinese equivalent of Hugging Face and a good back up. All the open models are Chinese anyways
- thot_experiment 8mo agoNot true! Mistral is really really good, but I agree that there isn't a single decent open model from the USA.
- culi 8mo agoMistral is cool and I wish them success but it consistently ranks extremely low on benchmarks while still being expensive. Chinese models like DeepSeek might rank almost as low as Mistral but they are significantly cheaper. And Kimi is the best of both worlds with incredible benchmark results while still being incredibly cheap I know things change rapidly so I'm not counting them out quite yet but I don't see them as a serious contender currently
- Onavo 8mo agoBandwidth is not that expensive. The Big 3 clouds just want to milk customers via egress. Look at Hetzner or CloudFlare R2 if you want to get get an idea of commodity bandwidth costs.