{"slug": "will-it-be-possible-to-do-llm-pool-training", "title": "Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?", "summary": "A user proposes the concept of LLM pool training, inspired by crypto pool mining, as a way for volunteers to collaboratively train open frontier models without relying on big corporations and their data centers.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nInspired by Crypto Pool Mining: would it be possible to train LLMs as a pool of volunteers? I feel like that would be a good way to have frontier models that are open and don’t rely on big corporations with data centers to train and release them…\n| |||||||||||||||\nApplications are open till July 27. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-it-be-possible-to-do-llm-pool-training", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048332", "published_at": "2026-07-25 15:22:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-25 15:52:40.995065+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-it-be-possible-to-do-llm-pool-training", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-it-be-possible-to-do-llm-pool-training.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-it-be-possible-to-do-llm-pool-training.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/will-it-be-possible-to-do-llm-pool-training.jsonld"}}