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Is there a technical reason that distributed LLMs don't exist? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by chinawcswing@alien.top to c/localllama@poweruser.forum

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Why is there no analog to napster/bittorent/bitcoin with LLMs?

Is there a technical reason that there is not some kind of open source LLM that we can all install on our local host which contributes computing power to answering prompts, and rewards those who contribute computing power by allowing them to enter more prompts?

Obviously, there must be a technical reason which prevents distributed LLMs or else it would have already been created by now.

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[–] Both_Garage_1081@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You guys are all talking about inference but how about using distributed computing strictly for training. That alone would save developers some serious moolah assuming somebody is able to solve all the technical problems like security & privacy.

[–] damhack@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

That’s how pretraining is already done. You would have the same issue, orders of magnitude greater latency. Given the number of calculations per training epoch, you don’t want to be bound by the slowest worker in the cluster. OpenAI etc. use 40Gbps (or 100Gbps nowadays) backplanes between A100/H100 GPU servers. Sending data over the Internet to an Nvidia 1080 is simply just slow.