What would it take for there to exist a completely community built, community owned, community controlled artificial intelligence to compete with the existing frontier?

The idea of a community-built, owned, and controlled AI, similar to the Linux/Gimp/Blender model, is being explored to challenge existing AI frontiers. A key challenge is hardware, but leveraging technologies like Petals (https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals) could address GPU centralization. This approach, likened to BitTorrent for GPU computation, suggests that historical software engineering demonstrates such problems are solvable, allowing the public to influence AI's future rather than an elite few.

This discussion uniquely proposes Petals technology as a solution to the hardware centralization problem, unlike other community AI initiatives that often overlook this critical aspect.