Top 3 Python volunteer-computing Projects

petals

98 8,661 8.5 Python

🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading

Project mention: Mistral Large | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-26

So how long until we can do an open source Mistral Large?
We could make a start on Petals or some other open source distributed training network cluster possibly?
[0] https://petals.dev/

hivemind

40 1,837 5.4 Python

Decentralized deep learning in PyTorch. Built to train models on thousands of volunteers across the world.

Project mention: You can now train a 70B language model at home | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind is also relevant

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
chat.petals.dev

8 296 7.5 Python

💬 Chatbot web app + HTTP and Websocket endpoints for LLM inference with the Petals client

Project mention: Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech | /r/transhumanism | 2023-12-07

ETA: https://chat.petals.dev

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).