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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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[–] Monkey_1505@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The latencies involved make it tricky. You can't just split it across them due to latency, which means both computers need to do their compute independently and then get combined somehow, which means you need to be able to break up inference into two completely distinct tasks.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but if it is, it hasn't been invented yet.

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

Maybe some BitTorrent version of RingAttention?