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title: Model Mirror - Initial Spec

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# Model Mirror for Asia

## Rationale
- In Asia, Model downloads from HF is excrutiatingly slow
- Jan may become an upload source and own further up the ecosystem
- Break centralization around HuggingFace
- Civit gained traction because they were a less permissioned, faster download source for HF
- Having a p2p mirror, torrent for models is valuable.
