Common AI: Decentralised AI Network

Common. As in shared. As in public.

A decentralised AI network. One open model is split across ordinary computers, each running part of it, and a small model drafts ahead so the whole thing keeps up.

Common land before enclosure: a classical painting of shared fields and open countryside

ENCLOSURE ACTS

Parliament passed 5,265 individual acts between 1604 and 1914, converting 6.8 million acres of common land into private property. What belonged to everyone was given to someone.

THE COMMONS STOLEN

Villagers who had farmed common land for generations were told to leave. The land stayed with the people who took it. Parliament called this improvement.

INTELLIGENCE AS COMMONS

Three companies control most of the AI inference in the world. They decide who is allowed to use it and what it costs, and they can decide differently tomorrow.

They are enclosing intelligence.

the commons

We are building the counter.

Common runs AI on machines owned by the people using it. Nothing is hosted in a data centre that a company controls.

Anyone can run a node. Your machine holds a slice of the model and passes its work to the next one. We're building it so no one company can own it or switch it off.

We are four teens in Adelaide. The machines the network runs on belong to the people using them.

This time, we keep the commons.

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