The AI community experienced a disruption when the popular platform HuggingFace went down, as reported by multiple users on Twitter. The outage seemed to have affected users globally, with reports of 504 errors indicating server-side issues. The downtime of HuggingFace, which occurred on a Saturday, caused inconvenience to users who struggled with their work, highlighting the platform's significant role in the AI ecosystem. Concerns were raised about the centralization of AI resources, drawing parallels to NVIDIA's dominant position and suggesting a need for a decentralized platform to host AI models and datasets. The on-call HuggingFace team was acknowledged during the outage, and the service was eventually restored, as noted by a user.
Huggingface is back https://t.co/wL9vtPFoRq
Please send hugs to the on-call @huggingface team 🤗
Guys I think I broke @huggingface https://t.co/GgmtlAZ3Bz
Just burnt 30 minutes trying to find my bug because huggingface is down.. damn!
HuggingFace is down on a Saturday.. Wonder when it’ll be back up. This legit seems like a single point failure for the AI ecosystem, just like NVIDIA’s monopoly. Yes, we need a decentralized platform to host our AI models and Datasets.. https://t.co/gdZDHh3h5z
#huggingface down @huggingface ? tried for multiple locations .. 504's
when @huggingface is down https://t.co/36GVL4p1Mb
Why not @huggingface ? 🥺 https://t.co/OoEPxTajQi