Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Pirate Face is a decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI, allowing open models from Hugging Face to be mirrored and distributed peer-to-peer. These models are checksum-verified torrents, held in a global swarm to ensure their permanence. Users can browse, download, and seed without an account, and reserved names can be claimed without verification.
However, verified badges require a matching Hugging Face identity. Pirate Face aims to provide free compute credits and exclusive model releases to community members in the future.
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