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Hosting model files - a prime candidate for torrents?

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Hi everyone, We've all seen the news about Nvidia purchasing Huggingface, and how that might lead to significant changes in the future. HF has huge costs associated with infrastructure and hosting these model files. Wouldn't torrents be a prime candidate technology for hosting these files instead?…

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  1. 2026-08-27 10:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Hosting model files - a prime candidate for torrents?

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