Pirate Face - Turn AI into torrents that live foreverPirate Face⌘KModelsLeaderboardActivitySubmitHow it worksArticlesLog inSign upModelsLeaderboardActivitySubmitHow it worksArticles𝕏 @ThePirateFaceLog inSign upTheme☀ Light🌙 DarkTurn AI into torrents that live forever.Open models - LLMs, image, audio, datasets - as 🧲 magnet links that can never be taken down. No single owner or point of failure.pirateface.co/Enter your handle aboveType your handle above to check availability. Live#huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-GGUF·recent#jgchaparro/language_garden-tsd-ell-9B-bl-GGUF·recent#heman10x/rlcd-modernbert-151m·recent#XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-FP8·recent#XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF·recent🧲Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8·recent#dealignai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-UNCENSORED-EXL3-2.9bpw·recent🧲lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit·recent⚑@lambohobbit claimed a handle·recent✓@lambohobbit verified·recent🧲Qwen/Qwen3-8B·recent#Lawrence/speecht5_finetuned_ndizi_SW_v3·recent#huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-GGUF·recent#jgchaparro/language_garden-tsd-ell-9B-bl-GGUF·recent#heman10x/rlcd-modernbert-151m·recent#XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-FP8·recent#XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF·recent🧲Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8·recent#dealignai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-UNCENSORED-EXL3-2.9bpw·recent🧲lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit·recent⚑@lambohobbit claimed a handle·recent✓@lambohobbit verified·recent🧲Qwen/Qwen3-8B·recent#Lawrence/speecht5_finetuned_ndizi_SW_v3·recentSee all →Trending ModelsTrending Apache-2.0 & MIT models, synced live from Hugging Face - each becoming a checksum-verified torrent.prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-ggufupdated 3d ago🧲 Magnettext-generation54 GB🌱 1 1.9Msentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2updated today🧲 Magnetsentence-similarity91 MB🌱 17 252Mdeepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flashupdated 10d ago🧲 Magnetimage-text-to-text765 GB🌱 6 497kconvaiinnovations/layaupdated yesterday🧲 Magnettext-classification843 MB🌱 1 0XingChen-AGI/Xing4.0-29B-A4Bupdated 2d ago🧲 Magnettext-generation62 GB🌱 1 13kQwen/Qwen3.8-27Bupdated 37d ago🧲 Magnetimage-text-to-text56 GB🌱 2 7.3MISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUFupdated 18d ago🧲 Magnetimage-text-to-text12 GB🌱 1 1.2Mharshatheg/Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCDupdated 4d ago🧲 Magnettext-generation- Ready 0baidu/Unlimited-OCRupdated today🧲 Magnetimage-text-to-text6.7 GB🌱 6 2.2MBrowse 669k+ eligible models →The permanence layer for sovereign AI.Pirate Face is decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI. Every open model is mirrored from Hugging Face as a torrent, held peer-to-peer instead of by a single company.Why models should never die →Censorship-resistantEvery model is a torrent that also downloads straight from Hugging Face. The day it's gone, the swarm keeps it alive - there's no single host to shut down.huggingface.co/modelremovedfallback ↓pirateface.co/model1,240 seedingChecksum-verifiedEvery file carries its official Hugging Face SHA-256 - so you verify every byte. Download it anywhere and the hash still has to match: the real weights, never a tampered copy.model-00001.safetensors6.7 GBSHA-2569f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08✓ Matches Hugging Face - bit-for-bit, untamperedDrop-in API soonPoint your existing pipeline at Pirate Face - same paths, same API, just a different endpoint. Zero code changes.pirateface - zsh# same pipeline - one env var$export HF_ENDPOINT=https://pirateface.co$python train.py✓pulling meta-llama/Llama-4 from the swarmClaim your handleReserve pirateface.co/yourname for your public profile. Verify your matching Hugging Face identity to earn the Verified creator badge and help prevent impersonation.Join the community for upcoming account benefits, including free compute credits and exclusive model releases.Create accountYou can browse, download and seed without an account.zai-org ✓ verifiedpirateface.co/zai-orgFollowZ.ai · Zhipu AI - GLM foundation models, BeijingLLMzai-org/GLM-5.2🌱 1,800LLMzai-org/GLM-4-9B🌱 1,240VISzai-org/CogVideoX-5B🌱 760FAQWhat is Pirate Face?A decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for sovereign AI. Open models from Hugging Face become checksum-verified torrents, held by a global swarm so they survive any single host taking them down. The goal is permanence for open-source AI.Do I need an account to use Pirate Face?No. You can browse, download, and seed without an account.Claiming is optional. A public claim reserves your Pirate Face handle and helps the network spread. Only your first eligible handle earns welcome points.Hugging Face creator claims require verification. To receive the Verified creator badge for a current Hugging Face username or organization, you must verify the matching Hugging Face account. Until then, the handle is only reserved and does not prove identity.Direct publishing is planned. Accounts will eventually support publishing and managing models directly on Pirate Face, without first uploading them to Hugging Face. That is not live yet.Today, submitting a model requires a Hugging Face account and the model must already be on Hugging Face.Accounts also support upcoming community benefits. See account benefits.Why create a Pirate Face account?An account gives you a place to manage your claimed handles and track your contributions. Claiming reserves a public handle; verifying the matching Hugging Face identity adds the creator badge and helps prevent impersonation.Pirate Face is preparing community benefits for account holders, including free compute credits and exclusive model releases.You can browse, download and seed without an account.Why use Hugging Face verification if the goal is independence from centralized hosting?Hugging Face verification confirms that someone claiming a creator’s handle controls the matching HF account or organization. It helps prevent impersonation and preserves attribution as models spread beyond their original host.You don’t need verification, or an account, to browse, download or seed.Pirate Face’s short-term goal is for model availability to outlive any single hosting platform. Today, parts of Pirate Face depend on Hugging Face and its community. Pirate Face is working to allow direct model publishing soon, without first uploading to HF.Does my Pirate Face handle have to match my Hugging Face username?No. You can reserve an available name, but the verified badge requires a matching Hugging Face identity.For example, a Hugging Face account named john123 can verify john123, not john.You can still reserve john, but it stays unverified. The matching Hugging Face owner could reclaim that handle without deleting your Pirate Face account.Manage your connected accounts and reserved handles in Account.Could someone impersonate a creator here?Both are protected:The weights can't be faked - every file is checksum-verified against Hugging Face's official SHA-256.The handle - anyone can reserve a name (it shows reserved, no Verified creator), but only proving the matching Hugging Face identity earns the Verified creator. A squatter can't lock you out: the real owner reclaims a reserved name by verifying.What does “checksum-verified” mean?Every weight file carries its official Hugging Face SHA-256 - a unique fingerprint of the exact bytes. Download it from anywhere and the hash still has to match, so you always know it's the real weights, never a tampered copy. It's the #1 fear with mirrored models, so it's a first-class feature here.How do downloads work, and what if Hugging Face removes a model?Every model is a magnet link (a torrent) with a Hugging Face web-seed built in - so it works even with zero peers.While it's on Hugging Face: you pull the bytes straight from HF - same weights, checksum-verified, same speed.The day HF removes it: the web-seed dies and the download falls back to the peer-to-peer swarm. We mark it Rescued - still reachable, kept alive by whoever's seeding.That fallback is the whole point: the same bytes as downloading from Hugging Face directly, but with no single point of failure (and the swarm can serve far-from-HF regions faster).Can I add my own model?Yes - if you have a surviving copy, submit a magnet with source evidence. Opening a model page already records Hugging Face checksums when they exist. A listing is not a download, and listing does not start seeding.Sign in and submit a peer-only magnet, pinned revision, file checksums, and license evidence. MIT and Apache-2.0 only, plus the approved Kimi-K3 exception.Matching Hugging Face LFS hashes at the pinned revision lists immediately. Mismatches or a gone source stay in the review queue.Pirate Face mirrors from Hugging Face, so the model has to live there first. If yours isn't on HF yet, upload it there (free) and then submit it here.What's a “web-seed”?The one bit of jargon worth knowing. A web-seed (BitTorrent spec BEP-19) is a plain HTTPS URL built into a torrent - here, the model's file on Hugging Face. It's really just the download link, carried inside the torrent as a guaranteed source - which is why models download even with zero peers, and why the swarm takes over the moment that link dies.What's the drop-in API?Set HF_ENDPOINT=https://pirateface.co and your existing pipeline resolves models through us - straight from Hugging Face while it's up, from the swarm the moment it isn't. Same paths, same API, zero code changes. soonWhat are points?Points recognise participation on the leaderboard. They are not money or a compute-credit balance.Welcome points: one qualifying handle per account. Extra reservations and linking HF do not earn another award. Connect your claim to an account to qualify.Referrals: 50 points for a new account's first handle, up to 10 credited referrals per referring account. Self-referrals and extra handles do not count.Rescued models: 25 points per distinct rescued model, credited to its first verified handle.Seeding rewards: planned, not active. We need attributable seeding evidence before awarding them.Pirate Face is building an ecosystem of contributors, with planned community benefits including free compute credits and exclusive model releases. Eligibility, limits and launch dates will be announced before benefits become available. Points do not automatically convert to credits, and reserving more handles does not increase your benefits.There is no token. Watch our official X for announcements.Read how it works →BrowseModelsLeaderboardActivityDatasets soonProductsCreate accountSubmit a modelPirateChat soonResourcesProvenance logChangelogArticlesTakedownCompanyMissionTermsPrivacyTwitterDonateMessage us on X

Pirate Face functions as a decentralized, peer-to-peer layer designed to establish permanence for sovereign artificial intelligence by transforming open models from Hugging Face into checksum-verified torrents held within a global swarm. The fundamental goal of this infrastructure is to ensure that open models remain available and censorship-resistant, eliminating the single point of failure associated with centralized hosting platforms. This is achieved by mirroring models from Hugging Face directly as torrents, ensuring that the model remains accessible even if a single hosting entity attempts to remove it. Every file within this system carries its official Hugging Face SHA-256 checksum, which acts as a unique digital fingerprint; this feature ensures that downloaded weights can be verified against the original source, guaranteeing the integrity of the files and preventing the use of tampered copies.

The system's operational mechanism relies on a robust mirroring process. When an open model exists on Hugging Face, it is mirrored into the Pirate Face swarm. This mirroring creates a decentralized distribution system where models exist as magnet links, augmented with a web-seed, which is an embedded, guaranteed source link pointing back to the original Hugging Face location. This web-seed is critical because it allows downloads to function even when the primary source link is removed, enabling the peer-to-peer swarm to keep the model alive. This fallback mechanism ensures that the model is rescued and remains reachable by the community, regardless of centralized server status.

Regarding user identity and ownership, Pirate Face incorporates a system for managing handles. Users can reserve handles for a public profile, allowing them to claim a presence on the network. To receive a Verified creator badge and prevent impersonation, claiming a handle requires matching the user's identity with an existing Hugging Face account or organization, which necessitates verification. While users can browse, download, and seed content without creating an account, linking a claim to an account unlocks community benefits, such as potential access to free compute credits and exclusive model releases.

The system also incorporates a mechanism for contribution tracking via points, which recognize participation on a leaderboard. These points are allocated based on actions like reserving handles, making referrals to new accounts, and rescuing models, though specific seeding rewards are planned pending the establishment of verifiable seeding evidence. The verification process for handles is designed to prevent impersonation; a reserved name can be reclaimed by the verified owner, reinforcing the decentralized control over identity.

For developers and users, Pirate Face offers practical integration through a drop-in API. This API allows existing pipelines to point to the Pirate Face endpoint, enabling them to resolve models through this decentralized structure while maintaining familiar paths and operational formats without requiring code changes. Furthermore, the system aims for future evolution by supporting direct model publishing, allowing users to manage and publish models directly on Pirate Face without needing an intermediate upload to Hugging Face initially. The entire framework is built on principles of transparency, verifiable integrity, and decentralized resilience to ensure the longevity and sovereignty of open-source AI models.