Microsoft Patent Describes Paying Users to Train AI on Their Idle GPUs
Resident-Fall4351 · reddit · 2026-11-11
A Microsoft patent describes a distributed training system that would assign AI training workloads to idle consumer GPUs (like gaming PCs) and pay users for their contributions. If realized, it could pool hundreds of millions of consumer cards — an interesting counterpoint to centralized datacenter compute. It's only a patent for now, with no product commitment.
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