r/LocalLLaMA's Top Post Is That Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Also Buys llama.cpp and Its Six-Person Team

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The day's highest-scoring r/LocalLLaMA post (1,205 upvotes, 368 comments) points out that the Nvidia acquisition sweeps up the llama.cpp and ggml copyright along with the team Hugging Face hired in February 2026: Georgi Gerganov, Xuan-Son Nguyen, Aleksander Grygier, Victor Mustar, Lysandre and Julien Chaumond. The top reply, at 957 upvotes, is 'If it happens, we shall fork and move on. It is the way of things,' and a separate 105-upvote thread argues Nvidia has an incentive to drop support for older cards like the V100 that llama.cpp currently keeps alive. Nvidia and llama.cpp maintainers have been collaborating on multi-GPU and tensor-parallel work in ggml for months, which is the counter-argument to the panic.