Based on our record, Vast.ai seems to be a lot more popular than MaidSafe. While we know about 223 links to Vast.ai, we've tracked only 3 mentions of MaidSafe. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I used to really geek out on this space, since I'm building a decentralized Internet suite myself. I interviewed Ian Clarke, the creator of Freenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ -- they are finally close to releasing, after 14 years! (Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Pay per packet. I remember maidsafe was working on this for many years without much success. Then they got into crypto for micropayments a decade later and it all got a bit messy. Not sure how well the project is doing these days but it was a solid concept at heart. https://maidsafe.net/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Https://maidsafe.net/ my dude. The new internet is in testnet ;) and 14 years in the making. Source: almost 3 years ago
There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
- https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 5 months ago
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