B-TIER platform
Hugging Bay — torrent index for open LLM weights
100k ft — What is this?
Hugging Bay — torrent index for open LLM weights
50k ft — Why care?
Hugging Bay is a Pirate Bay-style site for downloading open model weights via BitTorrent, pairing with torrent CLIs to pull large models without hammering a single host.
10k ft — Key takeaways
• Torrents spread bandwidth for multi-hundred-GB weight downloads.
• Verify checksums against the official release.
5k ft — Tools & techniques
Hugging Bay
peer-to-peer distribution
1k ft — Deep-dive / try it
🤗 Hugging bay is live
Transcript excerpt
everything that is old is new again I kind of love this so we're just talking about the pirate bay the other day and look what pops up the hugging bay a kinder friendlier version of the pirate bay this is kind of cool honestly I don't know why somebody didn't think of this earlier but it's basically the pirate bay for open LLMs weight model weights downloadable with torrents etc etc so you could use that CLI that we talked about the other day to download your models now that's kind of cool I'm not even gonna ask if it's useful because I know it is this is awesome check it out alright see you the next one peace