Figure 1 The open-source AI scene has been kicking goals. People have wrestled models, datasets, and all the fixings away from the big-wigs. The final boss of that game is the access to expensive compute. Training a foundation model from scratch takes a warehouse full of GPUs that costs more than a small nation’s GDP. It’s been the one thing keeping AI development firmly in the hands of a few tech giants with cash to burn. Until now, maybe. So, the citizen science equivalent for the NN a...
