[jhbadger]

I think you are arguing at cross-purposes. If you use HuggingFace to simply download models to run locally with ollama or llama.cpp, then you can say it is "local". But you can also use it as a service to run models (which is how they make money). Then they obviously aren't local.

[Der_Einzige]

Huggingface let's you run locally with huggingface exclusive code! They started this way and the managed/hosted solution came later.

You downvoters are the folks who jumped into this craze post ChatGPT.

[doctorpangloss]

I have no idea where people got the idea that Hugging Face isn’t local. I mean they show you how to run everything locally, with all the quantization strategies you could want, with far fewer bugs.