Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
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#2Very happy to see oobabooga on the list. Everyone's contributing in different ways, and ooba serves as a fantastic portal to try out various models which I appreciate. Its readme even says it wants to be like the automatic 1111 of text generation. For beginners like me who are curious about this new world, ooba is a great entry point.
Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
#3Well, at least this time a16z is giving money to actually useful technologies instead of bloviating about the world changing potential of cryptocurrencies. I imagine they've written down most of their cryptocurrency investments at this point.
That being said, these are some great grants for local LLM builders, local computation for such powerful tools is needed, and will continue to be needed, as industry incumbents like OpenAI continue to not release their models.
Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
#4Hi HN, we are super excited to announce this new initiative!!
Please note, this program was designed to support individuals, teams, and hackers who are not pursuing commercial companies. Nevertheless, these projects push the state of the art in open source AI and help provide us with a more robust and comprehensive understanding of the technology as it is developed.
We are really proud to be contributing in this small fashion and grateful to the first cohort and all others contributing in this space!
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#5This is great, but I'm not seeing anything about how to apply, or really anything about the application and selection process at all. Is this by design?
Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
#6Hi HN, we are super excited to announce this new initiative!! Please note, this program was designed to support individuals, teams, and hackers who are not pursuing commercial companies. Nevertheless, these projects push the state of the art in open source AI and help provide us with a more robust and comprehensive understanding of the technology as it is developed. We are really proud to be contributing in this smal…
I'm curious, where are you getting the GPUs?
Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
#7Well, at least this time a16z is giving money to actually useful technologies instead of bloviating about the world changing potential of cryptocurrencies. I imagine they've written down most of their cryptocurrency investments at this point. That being said, these are some great grants for local LLM builders, local computation for such powerful tools is needed, and will continue to be needed, as industry incumbents…
I had become honestly cynical of their actions in the past, as they felt hype-driven and externalities-blind. Yet I don’t see how this grant could become rapacious. Hopefully it is an attempt at cleaning the brand which can work as making amends.
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#8Amazing. Those are really solid 1st picks. A huge chunk of the organic experimentation relies directly on them.
Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants
#9Well, at least this time a16z is giving money to actually useful technologies instead of bloviating about the world changing potential of cryptocurrencies. I imagine they've written down most of their cryptocurrency investments at this point. That being said, these are some great grants for local LLM builders, local computation for such powerful tools is needed, and will continue to be needed, as industry incumbents…
Don't VCs basically chase everything because they only rely on 10% or less to succeed but, that 10% needs to have at least 10x or more profit and then they do another round?
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#10It's interesting to note that there's particular emphasis on "removing censorship from LLM outputs" given a16z's investments outside the AI space in some ideological social media companies.