My startup computes everything locally. We use our own hardware.<p>If we'll ever get to the point where we need serious dynamic scaling, sure, we'll use cloud-tooling. But for now, cloud-compute has zero alignment with our vision and strategy. AWS is powerful and surely has its place, but "run it on Bezos' hardware" doesn't exactly spark confidence in "open" or "democratized" AI progress.<p>One thing I love about Huggingface is that I can simply download a model and do stuff with it. Iirc, I couldn't download some models and was instead incentivized to use Sage Maker (maybe only for finetuning? I don't recall exactly) recently.<p>I deeply hope that this partnership doesn't become a "to use models hosted by huggingface, you must use AWS". The fact that this announcement reeks of business speak ("Together, the two leaders aim to accelerate [...]") leaves a bad feeling in my mouth.