Microsoft patent would pay PC owners for spare GPU time to train AI
markjeffrey · x · 2026-11-13
A newly surfaced Microsoft patent describes technology that could pay people to let AI train on their computers while they're not using them, as reported by Kalshi. Decentralized AI network Bittensor (opentensor) reshared the news, noting that this principle—incentivizing people worldwide to contribute compute and train AI together—has been core to Bittensor's vision from day one.
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