Pirate Face mirrors open models as torrents, already indexing 28,890 magnet links
zainhas · x · 2026-11-15
A new site called Pirate Face mirrors open models from HuggingFace as torrents and magnet links, aiming to keep open weights alive even if a single platform goes down.
- 28,890 magnets listed and 53,164 seeders, growing rapidly since September 2026
- Catalog spans GGUF quants, embedding models, rerankers, and small LLMs like TinyLLama and SmolLM2
- Anyone can submit a torrent; the project bills itself as the "permanence layer for sovereign AI"
An interesting attempt to use the BT swarm as decentralized backup and distribution for open-source models.
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