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Why is Meta open sourcing its AI through torrent? Or am I understanding it all wrong
by KierPrev 4y ago
Why is Meta open sourcing its AI through torrent?
Or am I understanding it all wrong
- rnosov 4y agoit's a pull request from ChristopherKing42. He is unlikely to be associated with Meta.
- drbscl 4y agoSending via HTTP will incur bandwidth costs. Torrents massively reduce this cost in the long run by making it P2P. Edit: maybe in this case it's a leak though
- Technotroll 4y agoTorrent can also be really, really fast with enough seeders, even giving CDNs a run for their money.
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- IceWreck 4y agoTheyre giving it to universities for free. Someone got access and then made PR with a link to the torrent
- gorbypark 4y agoIt seems like the model has been leaked (not by Meta) and is being distributed via a torrent. Someone has created a PR to the repo as a joke, suggesting that instead of filling out a form and waiting to be granted access (which is the official way to get access to the model), that you could just download it via the torrent.