Key Info
A quoted estimate says that Meta, NVIDIA, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Mistral and roughly 30 other labs have shared close to $1B worth of training compute on the Hugging Face Hub, up from under $40M at the end of 2023.
Highlights
- The figure is described as a floor: about half comes from official compute numbers and the rest is educated guesswork.
- The estimate still excludes roughly 900k community fine-tunes.
- A companion Space is offered for exploring the underlying data.
- The comparison frames shared GPU-hours and data as the "commons" of the AI age.