ML models are the new apps. There is a huge opening for an App Store type situation which enables people to buy models and integrate them into their products, handling the appropriate licensing.
Bonus points for certifying the models actually do what they say. That by itself will probably become a mini industry.
Hugging Face are the clear leaders in terms of having mindshare in the community to be able to build it.
Models != apps, they’re closer to the backend for apps or a core library, so your customers aren’t “everyone with a phone/computer” like an app, it’s the much smaller, but potentially high impact, “everyone who creates apps”.
We’re not in a world where non tech people are searching for models in the model store from their phone.
Bonus points for certifying the models actually do what they say. That by itself will probably become a mini industry.
Hugging Face are the clear leaders in terms of having mindshare in the community to be able to build it.