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Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its AWS bills
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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As far as I know there aren't any other open source alternatives at the moment that are comparable to commercial models. The main roadblock for open source models is the cost of initial training. As we see with Stability AI, relying on companies to do this isn't really a sustainable approach. I'd really like to see more work going into stuff like Petals to allow training and running models using a distributed network.
Network latency will make distributed training a very time-consuming task.
Sure, but I don't think that's a show stopper since you don't need to do comprehensive training often. Also worth noting that stuff like LoRAs allow extending functionality of models without retraining from scratch. So, most training might be relatively small within a specific context.
You don't need to do it often, but initial training requires huge ressources and someone has to do it, if you want to create new models from scratch. And for this you need your compute packed as close as possible.
Not sure what your point is here. The whole point of stuff like Petals is to facilitate a way to do this by harnessing a lot of computers around the world. It would be slower than doing it in a data center, but it's not a show stopper if this is something that only needs to be done occasionally.
Sorry, I thought that we might be underestimating the factor of "slower", but I couldn't quickly find numbers to prove my point. I might be wrong after all. I wish you a good night. ๐