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by mzz80 1185 days ago
It does appear to only support Bloom, which makes it currently useless since there are much better models with fewer parameters that you can run on a single machine.

However, the project has a lot of appeal. Not sure how different architectures will get impacted by network latency but presumably you could turn this into a HuggingFace type library where different models are plug-n-play. The wording of their webpage hints that they’re planning on adding support for other models soon.
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vineyardmike 1185 days ago
> However, the project has a lot of appeal. Not sure how different architectures will get impacted by network latency but presumably you could turn this into a HuggingFace type library where different models are plug-n-play.

I love this "bittorent" style swarms compared to the crypto-phase where everything was pay-to-play. People just sharing resources for the community is what the Internet needs more of.

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muyuu 1185 days ago
at some point if you want more resources and have them available with the least latency possible, some sort of pay-to-play market will need to appear

even if the currency is computing resources that you have put into the network before (same is true for bittorrent at scale, but most usage of bittorrent is medium/high latency - which makes the market for low-latency responses not critical in that case)

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vineyardmike 1184 days ago
> at some point if you want more resources and have them available with the least latency possible, some sort of pay-to-play market will need to appear

This already exists, it’s corporations. BitTorrent is free, while AWS S3 - or Netflix ;) - is paid.

OpenAI has a pay to use API while this petals.ml “service” is free.

Corporate interests and capitalism fill the paid-for resource opportunities well. I want individuals on the internet to be altruistic and share things because it’s cool not because they’re getting paid.

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muyuu 1184 days ago
AWS, or Google Collab etc resemble more paid on demand cloud instances of something like petals.ml than they resemble Netflix.

I don't see the Netflix model working here, unless they can't somehow own the content rights at least partially. Or, as it happens right now with the likes of OpenAI and Midjourney, they sustain a very obvious long term technical advantage. But long term, it's not clear to me it will be sustainable. Time will tell.

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