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by monkeydust 641 days ago
Curious but is there a path where llm training or inference could be distributed across the BOINC network: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure...
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Not yet, the bandwidth requirement is too high. But if someone figures this out that's when we will have true open source models. A crowdsourced supercomputer can outcompete any corporation's server farm.
Yea seems like an inflection moment when it happens. Curious who's working on this problem.
It's not in the interest of the big players for sure!