Plain Strata B5: Harder to Build Than to Use
One question splits this whole field in two: are you using an AI model, or building one? Using a finished model to answer a question is called inference, and decentralizing it is hard but solved, running in production today. Building the model in the first place, out of mountains of examples, is called training, and decentralizing that is the frontier nobody has cracked. Inference is a single self-contained job. A question comes in, the model runs once, an answer comes out, and you can check it afterward. Training is not one job but an enormous tightly coupled marathon, and it cannot be…
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