Apple's Minions turns idle Mac GPUs into a pooled cloud for ML inference
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-14
Apple has published Minions, a project that pools the idle Apple GPUs sitting in Macs and runs ML inference jobs across them — effectively turning unused Macs into a GPU cloud. Commenter MikePFrank notes the next step seems obvious for Apple to productize this latent compute network.
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