[vineyardmike]

> 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.

[muyuu]

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)

[vineyardmike]

> 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.

[muyuu]

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.