Distributed Intelligence: The Alignment Protocol
summary
A decentralized pretraining network called Psyche is actively training a 40 billion parameter model using global nodes logged on the Solana blockchain and publishing daily checkpoints to HuggingFace; engineering cuts the cross-node communication cost by 4,000x so GPUs need not co‑locate. Reinforcement learning tools (Atropos) and a recent 200‑person hackathon produce diverse environments, and a surveyed 8,000 idle H200s could—half pooled—train DeepSeek R1 in about 500 hours, enabling open-source alignment at scale.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Decentralized AI alignment
- 3:17Performative alignment critique
- 8:52Intellectual elitism in AI
- 10:37Open source for alignment
- 14:30Building decentralized AI
- 16:15Call to action for open AI
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