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Is it worth building a model archive in case of restrictions and stuff?

I've been thinking about how dependet we are on huggingface for downloading models. If hf ever became unavailable, heavily restricted or started removing large numbers of models, how well would the community/we be able to preserve access to them? One thing i noticed is that torrent based distributi…

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  1. 2026-10-26 12:21 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Is it worth building a model archive in case of restrictions and stuff?

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