Introducing Pirate Face
The first verifiable torrent index for AI - every Hugging Face open model, provably identical to the original and kept alive forever by the swarm.
pirateface.co
The permanence layer for AI. How it works 👇
Introducing the Pirate Face tracker - its distributed hash table (DHT) and BitTorrent tracker.
Every listed magnet points clients to:
udp://tracker.pirateface.co:6969/announce
The endpoint speaks BitTorrent to torrent clients, helping peers carrying the same model find one
Jensen Huang told a room of global investors that AI is not one industry. It is five stacked on top of each other. Most people are investing in layer four and ignoring layers one through three entirely.
He called it the five-layer cake.
Layer one is energy. Jensen said this is
PIRATE FACE TRENDING ON HACKER NEWS
"phoyd 15 hours ago | prev | next [–]
Torrents should really be the preferred method for distributing AI model weights. Why rely on a single point of failure like Hugging Face? BitTorrent was made for exactly this."
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PIRATE FACE IS #1 ON HACKER NEWS
"yieldcrv 3 hours ago | prev | next [–]
great initiative, it's really weird seeing efficiencies get rediscovered in the LLM audience, because these efficiencies aren't even what I would consider to be old."
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