Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
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Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
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Re: Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
#2Hey 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 on milestones. Researchers can offer incentives, such as providing commercial licenses to contributors.
We hope this will open up a whole new avenue for large scale model work, powering the open source future of AI.
Would love to hear thoughts from the community!
Re: Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
#3You know Llama is a Meta trademark, right? If you want to compete with the big labs then step one should be to avoid handing them a loaded gun to shoot you down with.
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#4You know Llama is a Meta trademark, right? If you want to compete with the big labs then step one should be to avoid handing them a loaded gun to shoot you down with.
And trademarks aside, the word is strongly associated with Meta in this space.
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#6Hey 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…
Don't use the name "Llama". Llama is not open source.
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#7I really like the idea of crowd funding research or the opposite public funding of citizen science.
It would be interesting to also have a space where the community could propose research directions.
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#8My first thought was "Why the hell is Meta crowd funding their models?!"
Neat idea, but I'd change the name
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#9Contact 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
Re: Llama Fund: Crowdfund AI Models
#10Hey 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…
I think this is cool, it's not too hard to get a 500m model doing some sort of interesting stuff as a home researcher but scaling it into the low billions to see if it remains competitive out of my own pocket is a non starter.