But it seems there is interest for this regardless
Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
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#12My first thought was "Why the hell is Meta crowd funding their models?!" Neat idea, but I'd change the name
Seconded. I don't know if I would want to be involved if Meta was organizing the effort, but I also don't want to be involved if they are using the name of a model (family of models) that they don't own to capitalize on the brand recognition.
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#13Contact page lists a single gmail addr? Model runs take millions. Was really expecting this to have a credible major sponsor or alternatively propose a new distributed torrent-y training model to sidestep the massive pile of money issue
Gotta start somewhere
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#14Hey HN, I'm sick and tired of the big labs controlling most of the generative AI landscape. We are launching Llama Fund as a means of democratizing large scale AI model training through crowd funding. Our platform will allow researchers to propose a training pipeline, from data curation to the number of GPUs required. Ideally they will already have a toy model working. From there users can crowdfund the effort based…
Who is “we” (in the “We are launching”) and what is the mechanism you can convince people/investors that you or the proposer of the project know how to train large scale models and can make accurate practical estimates?
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#15Why the hell would you use that name?
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#16I think the name is based on the popular subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
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#17Contact page lists a single gmail addr? Model runs take millions. Was really expecting this to have a credible major sponsor or alternatively propose a new distributed torrent-y training model to sidestep the massive pile of money issue
Gotta start somewhere
Exactly! The most important thing is to start.
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#18Patrick, it’s really hard to tell if you're serious or legitimate from this made-in-Lovable-in-5-minutes site.
If you are serious, I recommend that you ask the admins (hn@ycombinator.com) to delete this post, then spend at least half an hour thinking about a better name, and what readers might need to know before you (1) create a more substantive landing page and (2) re-announce. That would at least give you a chance at making a positive first impression.
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#19Contact page lists a single gmail addr? Model runs take millions. Was really expecting this to have a credible major sponsor or alternatively propose a new distributed torrent-y training model to sidestep the massive pile of money issue
Gotta start somewhere
For startups in general yes, for aggregating millions of user funds you need a better plan straight off the bat
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#20Patrick, it’s really hard to tell if you're serious or legitimate from this made-in-Lovable-in-5-minutes site. If you are serious, I recommend that you ask the admins (hn@ycombinator.com) to delete this post, then spend at least half an hour thinking about a better name, and what readers might need to know before you (1) create a more substantive landing page and (2) re-announce. That would at least give you a chance…
I am building the backend full time for this, I'm serious about it and see it as one of the biggest issues in the ecosystem today. I'm looking to gauge interest in the concept to hopefully raise more to implement it faster.
What exactly is wrong about it? I spent a fair amount of time on it and just saying "its bad" isn't really helpful feedback.