Fun and crazy napkin math: Meta, NVIDIA, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot, Mistral and ~30 other labs have shared close to $1B worth of training compute on the Hugging Face Hub

Free to download

End of 2023 it was under $40M

Wikipedia was written in volunteer hours. This AI age commons is written in GPU-hours and data

(it's a floor btw: about half comes from official compute numbers rest is educated guess and it still miss the ~900k community fine-tunes)

Space with data to explore: https://thomwolf-hub-dollars.static.hf.space