What is FLock.io?
FLock.io is a decentralized platform that streamlines the AI development process, emphasizing data privacy and collaborative model training. It enables developers to contribute models, data, or computing resources in a modular way, facilitating the creation of fit-for-purpose AI models under community stewardship.
Key Features:
- Data Ownership: FLock ensures that data remains local during training and hosting, preserving user privacy. For crowdsourced data, contributors are fairly rewarded.
- Finetuning Foundation Models: The platform allows for the finetuning of large language models (LLMs), Stable Diffusion, and more, either independently or collaboratively with other FLock nodes, reducing data requirements.
- Scalable Infrastructure: FLock employs efficient and compute-saving finetuning techniques, such as Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), to enhance scalability.
- Community-Owned: The platform coordinates finetuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on-chain, ensuring that contributors of data, feedback, and compute resources share in the rewards.
By eliminating obstacles that hinder active participation in AI systems, FLock empowers communities to co-create AI models in a decentralized and privacy-preserving environment.