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Within hours of the NVIDIA deal, r/LocalLLaMA started organizing around ModelScope as a Hub alternative
A thread titled "ModelScope Is a Hugging Face Alternative now that Nvidias deal is a Go" pulled 197 upvotes and 107 comments the same day, alongside a 105-upvote thread asking whether frontier labs are sabotaging local implementations. Nothing has actually changed about the Hub's terms, and NVIDIA's announcement explicitly promises multi-accelerator support. The signal here is not migration, it is that a single ownership change was enough to make the local-model community start naming a fallback registry out loud.
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