We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating

more thoughts:

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We're excited to announce our investment in Pluralis Research, advancing "Actually Open AI" through decentralized, collaborative model training. @usv and @coinfund-io co-led the $7.6M seed round, with @variant, Topology, and others participating

more thoughts: https://blog.usv.com/pluralis-towards-actually-open-ai

no clue if I’m right but guessing from reading this that it’s some type of tensor splitting where a model is shared across nodes. no one holds the full weight set—each gets a tensor chunk, like a weight matrix slice, cutting comms to 1-5MB/step over slow nets.

is this tensor splitting? super cool idea, had some questions in a thread here trying to unpack the idea:

is this tensor splitting? super cool idea, had some questions in a thread here trying to unpack the idea: https://warpcast.com/yhprumslaw/0xcc4bfe1f