The presentation will take place in Ballroom F on Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 13:00 to 13:15

AI systems created and maintained by open-source communities are a natural counterbalance to corporate-owned AI systems. Similarly to SETI@Home, everyone can take some of the unused computing time on their devices, and contribute to a larger system. In this case, it forms a decentralized fabric to replace the storage and computation currently requiring expensive cloud resources from corporate providers.