What If AI Was Owned Collectively? The Building Blocks of Decentralized AI
Admirable_Wasabi_732 · reddit · 2026-09-14
A long Reddit essay argues AI is centralizing into a few companies' data centers and surveys research showing decentralized AI is feasible: a 2025 ICT Express review of 71 studies, federated learning at Flower's 15M-client scale, serverless decentralized FL, Nature-published Swarm Learning trained on 16,400+ blood transcriptomes and 95,000+ chest X-rays, and BOINC exploring volunteer consumer GPUs — with real limits in heterogeneity, node churn, and bandwidth.
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