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  "title": "Calling it now Microsoft is buying Unsloth.",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tvhv4b/calling_it_now_microsoft_is_buying_unsloth/",
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  "transcript": "I am going to be honest, I am leery of this new partnership with Unsloth. Microsoft historically hated open source, and this will not benefit the community in the end. It will look great at first. They will drop updates, play nice, and everyone will celebrate.\n\nBut if you have been around the block, you know exactly how this play ends. Microsoft spent decades aggressively trying to kill open source. A shiny PR campaign does not change corporate DNA.\n\nCalling it now, Microsoft is going to buy Unsloth and go after llama.cpp next. They just want to control how we run models locally so they can force everyone back onto their paid cloud servers. They do not buy things to keep them free. They buy them to trap you in their ecosystem, so do not act surprised when they pull the rug.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[1 upvotes] Your post is getting popular and we just featured it on our Discord! [Come check it out!](https://discord.gg/PgFhZ8cnWW)\n\nYou've also been given a special flair for your contribution. We appreciate your post!\n\n*I am a bot and this action was performed automatically.*\n\n[289 upvotes] Hey guys, we are **not being acquired by Microsoft**. We have actually received many acquisition offers and have declined over 30 from every large company you can name, and large startups. Our mission first and foremost as a team of 10ish people is to be open source first and serve everyone here!\n\nWe will continue to release new model quants, new custom kernels, reward functions, fix bugs in models, make training actually possible on your device and educating folks about new models, RL, training etc. and we're excited to be launching our local desktop app soon!\n\nWe also recently **joined the PyTorch Ecosystem (which is owned by the Linux Foundation) to help our reach and neutrality for all parties/companies**. For the Microsoft collab itself, Microsoft actually reached out because of our DeepSeek R1 Dynamic GGUF work, and we got connected to the Windows AI team via that. They then noticed Unsloth Studio could show the power of OSS models (the new model) through our tool call healing etc, and so we collabed with them to show it running well locally with tool calling, web search, code execution etc.\n\nFor partnerships in particular, we actually do many collabs with nearly every major \n\n[96 upvotes] If you kill unsloth another one will just pop up.  The reason it exists is in spite of closed source.  i.e. If it got closed source then another kind of unsloth would appear.",
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