Community Idle Computing Inference Network
punkyrockypocky · reddit · 2026-07-12
They are building a distributed inference network that runs on laptops and personal computers of community users worldwide.
The project pays users for idle compute, and AI developers can call open-source models through its inference API, reducing the cost of integrating models into apps and agents to half of cloud services. The team is launching a closed beta this week and wants the community to help decide which models to launch first; users can also request invitations in the comments to try it.
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