Parallax Tackles Decentralized Training Sync; Dev Advocates for Tools Over 'AI Gods'
jon_durbin · x · 2026-07-26
Developer Jon Durbin clarified he isn't an extreme AGI cultist, criticizing frontier labs for sacrificing everything to 'build God'. His goal is to build efficient tools to augment human ability, not replace it. The quoted trailer also reveals progress on the decentralized training project Parallax, which has solved the sync issues of existing algorithms, achieving exact sync and non-blocking operations.
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