Proposal: Using BitTorrent to Host Large AI Model Files
vexatious-big · reddit · 2026-08-27
Citing the massive infrastructure and hosting costs faced by Hugging Face, this post suggests using BitTorrent (P2P) technology to host and distribute large AI model files. Since these models are very large, free, and pose no legal issues, the author argues that outsourcing hosting to the community is an ideal solution to alleviate storage and bandwidth burdens on centralized platforms.
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