After Microsoft outage, open-weight model torrent seeders hit record 30,000
WolframRvnwlf · x · 2026-11-13
Arguing that relying on centrally hosted services is a huge risk — as Microsoft demonstrated again with an outage — the author warns that Hugging Face, as the central repository for open models, faces particular exposure, and that hosting models via torrents makes the most sense since nobody can take them down at will.
The quoted post notes that hours after the Jensen ouster news, the Pirate Face community surpassed 30,000 seeders for open-weight model torrents, an all-time high: each time control of AI concentrates into fewer hands, more people keep local copies and seed.
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