Are there any sites/tools available for merging models? It would be cool to have an ecosystem/marketplace where people could leverage other work and continue to refine their AI's abilities.

HuggingFace’s platform allows for experimenting, learning and leveraging models and data sets including LLM and instruction sets to train a chat bot.

For “merging”, I would learn about fine tuning to see if that’s what you are looking to learn more about.

why call it decentralized that s making it seem as if there was any 'centralization' or that that was the default. It's like calling notepad.exe 'decentralized'

If Google Docs was the only way most people wrote text then I think your analogy would indeed be apt. In this case, nearly all people using Large Language Models are doing so through a web page (ChatGPT) or an API.

That's the inspiration behind the name, open for something better. Considered "Edge" as well, but was concerned that would seem IoT/mobile specific.

Self-hosted?

The title of this post is so ironic given ChatGPT’s tendency to stop in the middle of its responses!