Also: llama.garden is a good site for LLM torrents
this site is confusing. i hit the little arrow by the file to download the .torrent file. it downloads the entire model from HF in 3 seconds and blows through a gigabyte of my phones data. wtf.
luckily that outcome was not too horrible. and i actually got a good GGUF.I’m surprised that this wasn’t already the case. Model files are massive and torrents (the technology) are a good way to get those files around. It also provides another way to verify which models are popular based on the number of seeders, instead of relying solely on what each website claims is popular.
“each website” being huggingface and modelscope. The hosting of these files is being subsidized by those two entities. HF was just bought by Nvidia. It’s just a matter of time before they try to squeeze out a return. Not sure who is funding modelscope. Anyway, this site popping up is somewhat of a reaction to this.
