Livepeer AI tackles one of the most pressing challenges of
the AI boom: the exponential demand for AI compute capacity
NEW YORK, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Open video
infrastructure network Livepeer has announced the launch of its AI
subnet. As the usage of generative AI increases, there's a
commensurate need for more adaptable, dynamic access to AI compute
capabilities for builders, creators and developers, says Livepeer
CEO Doug Petkanics:
"AI inference is one of the most costly and
compute heavy challenges with generative AI," says Livepeer
CEO Doug Petkanics. "Our global
network of decentralized nodes can serve the growing demand for AI
compute – demand that will only grow exponentially as text-to-video
models become embedded across entertainment, social media and
gaming."
The Livepeer AI subnet allows hardware providers to earn
fees for contributing their GPUs for AI inference jobs such as
text-to-image, text-to-video and image-to-video. The subnet is a
fork of the main Livepeer network, which enables new AI
capabilities while still using the Livepeer protocol for discovery
and payments to nodes.
The goal of the subnet launch is to on-board nodes to support
Livepeer's new AI capabilities, perform testing and collect data
from strategic test partners that benchmark the cost effectiveness
of the Livepeer network for performing AI inference at scale,
continues Petkanics:
"After validation, the team will merge these
capabilities into the core Livepeer clients, add additional job
types, and grow the ecosystem around leveraging additional forms of
AI-based video compute. The goal is to enable AI developers to
bring their own models, weights, fine-tunings, or deploy custom
LoRAs on top of existing foundational models within the network.
These will give the ultimate flexibility to developers, who can
design bespoke workflows to support any type of AI media compute
need imaginable."
The team is currently targeting an August launch for the
Livepeer AI mainnet, which will allow builders, creators and
developers to leverage Livepeer's cost-efficient, reliable and
scalable infrastructure for all of their generative AI compute
needs.
Livepeer joins the C2PA to fight deepfakes
Livepeer is the first open infrastructure network to join the
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), an open
technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers
the ability to trace the origin of different types of media. Other
members include TikTok, Adobe, Google, Sony, Intel, BBC, Microsoft
and OpenAI.
"When it comes to AI, content provenance is
difficult," says Petkanics. "The infrastructure layer is ideally
positioned to be a crucial stopgap for misinformation, as it can
seamlessly fingerprint content as it moves from creation to
editing, distribution and consumption. We're committed to
supporting content authenticity wherever possible to rebuild trust
and embed verifiable metadata that enables attribution at each
stage of the content lifecycle."
Learn more at livepeer.ai.
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About Livepeer
Founded in 2017 by Doug Petkanics
and Eric Tang, Livepeer is an open
video infrastructure network for transcoding video and processing
generative video. Learn more at livepeer.org.
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