#modelweights — Public Fediverse posts

Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights

https://weeraman.com/because-we-can/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083599

#HackerNews #cryptography #modelweights #technology #history #innovation

High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights

https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-bandwidth-flash

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915393

#HackerNews #HighBandwidthFlash #efficientStorage #modelWeights #storageSolutions #techInnovation

We usually download these pre-trained models from sites like HuggingFace GGUF, Ollama, or vLLM. The companies that build these things tell you if you want to use their models locally, just download their apps or Python scripts, then run a command and it pulls the models for you. Great, nice and easy.

But what if the servers are down, or being blocked by the government or something? Is there anyone out there BitTorrent-ing model weights and paramaters like #DeepSeekR1 ?

#tech #AI #DeepSeek #LLM #BitTorrent #ModelWeights