They're even more terrified of torch or another framework take up the industry. As ML is a research-heavy space, getting ML researchers to use your platform has benefits.
But as people who only understand money they give HF a pile of cash to hedge against a FOSS risk to the balance sheet. It’s cheap insurance. Same with Claude.
Actuary tables and bank statements is all they understand, there is no technical leadership at google, accounting took over and the company only makes sense if you understand all decisions are made by the CFO.