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> So if you want someone to answer precisely how they'll extract hundreds of millions of dollars from an emerging market, I have to imagine this isn't the correct forum to expect such answers.

I don’t think the idea is to get a precise answer. I think the idea is to answer what their business model is. Like will they sell subscriptions? Or ads? Or patronage? Or enterprise support? Or conferences? Or what.

I don’t use huggingface, but am a little familiar with them and think they are a great group with great software. But since it’s OSS, I’m not sure how they would make such a huge amount as $100M. Not to mention that they probably need to make much more than that to have happy investors. So there’s probably a $1-2B plan for making money somewhere and knowing the general idea for their business model would be cool.

I’m a bit bitter over what happened with OpenAI, and many other great opensource projects that turned into crappy companies boxed into making way more than they naturally could make (eg, elastic).