commonsense-ai/coop

A small language model pretrained by volunteers — pseudo-gradients arrive as Hugging Face PRs, a stateless GitHub Actions cron aggregates them (DiLoCo). No servers, no funding: donated hardware + free tiers. Live leaderboard.

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• Coop: A small language model pretrained by volunteers (2 points, 0 comments, by simonpure, 2026-09-30)