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Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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> We believe artificial intelligence has the power to save the world—and that a thriving open source ecosystem is essential to building this future.

Thank you for understanding the fundamental flaws of the World and human consciousness, and thank you for spending multiple lifetimes as Buddhist monks (not to mention lamas) to understand the intricacies of the human mind from a scientific perspective. This is exactly what we need right now and this initiative looks to be the answer to all of our problems.

Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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Post by qwertox »

rajko_rad wrote: post #4

Hi 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…

Thank you!

Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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Post by svnt »

“We are disguising this round of seed funding as a grant, accomplishing all of the below:

1) brand-washing for people who don’t do the math

2) avoiding angering our LPs and/or violating our fund theses and

3) getting in on the ground floor of things that might follow OpenAI through the non-profit-to-VC-darling door

Thanks for reading our press release, feel free to try to apply using your personal network (somehow) because we don’t care as we’ve already landed our positions.”

Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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svnt wrote: post #15

“We are disguising this round of seed funding as a grant, accomplishing all of the below: 1) brand-washing for people who don’t do the math 2) avoiding angering our LPs and/or violating our fund theses and 3) getting in on the ground floor of things that might follow OpenAI through the non-profit-to-VC-darling door Thanks for reading our press release, feel free to try to apply using your personal network (somehow) b…

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Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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skilled wrote: post #11

> We believe artificial intelligence has the power to save the world—and that a thriving open source ecosystem is essential to building this future. Thank you for understanding the fundamental flaws of the World and human consciousness, and thank you for spending multiple lifetimes as Buddhist monks (not to mention lamas) to understand the intricacies of the human mind from a scientific perspective. This is exactly w…

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Re: Long Live the 'GPU Poor' – Open-Source AI Grants

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satvikpendem wrote: post #3

Well, 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…

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