{"slug": "show-hn-biopetals-run-biology-tuned-llama-bittorrent-style", "title": "Show HN: Biopetals – Run biology tuned Llama, BitTorrent-style", "summary": "A developer created Biopetals, a modified version of the Petals library that enables distributed, BitTorrent-style inference for biology-tuned Llama models across a network of computers. The project was inspired by a two-hour wait for an AI protein folding server submission, aiming to accelerate biological model inference using consumer GPUs or Google Colab. The system requires a minimum number of participants on the network to function, with a setup Colab notebook provided for testing.", "body_md": "About a month ago, I heard about petals. Petals is basically a library that lets you run LLMs by loading the weights onto a network of computers that are all running petals. Then it splits up inference allowing you to run larger LLMs with consumer GPUs or just a Google colab.\n\nEarlier I was submitting a sequence to an AI protein folding server and had to wait almost 2 hours. This gave me the idea of trying to modify petals for biology models. Rewriting petals completely for different architectures (genome language models, protein language models) would be difficult, so I decided to start off by just rewriting for a biology tuned llama.\n\nIf u wanna try it out, theres a fully setup Google colab linked in the readme, it might not actually run though since it needs a certain amount of people on the network.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296186](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296186)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-biopetals-run-biology-tuned-llama-bittorrent-style", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/OSbiotools/BioPetals/tree/main", "published_at": "2026-05-27 15:57:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 16:16:37.551571+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Petals", "Llama", "Biopetals", "Google Colab"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-biopetals-run-biology-tuned-llama-bittorrent-style", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-biopetals-run-biology-tuned-llama-bittorrent-style.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-biopetals-run-biology-tuned-llama-bittorrent-style.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-biopetals-run-biology-tuned-llama-bittorrent-style.jsonld"}}