question - if you have a shitty (or good) gpu that is idling some of the time, would you want it to get some sats for jobs run, even if it would be very little (keep in mind that you can rent 1080's for 30$/month for 24/7 so paying a lot above that doesn't make any economic sense
i have a trust minimized setup for distributed transcriptions (central queue, workers pick up jobs and get presigned urls for download of audio and upload of results, it could be done in a decentralized manner but i feel like the overhead of needing to deal with people trying to game it makes no sense
it would be an interesting decentralized compute marketplace play tho, but the verification would cost more than the job itself
nvidia + plutegroup (a residential home construction company) might actually finally prove the decentralized compute thesis that many of us in freedom tech space have been dreaming about
Good week for confidential inference - new models across several providers:
- Kimi K2.6
- DeepSeek V4 Pro
- GLM 5.1 + Thinking
- MiniMax M2.5
- Gemma 4 31B
We have 48 models across 9 with prices comparison across providers at
When you are not careful which version of a laptop you buy (replacing dead keyboard requires taking apart the entire laptop instead of 5min work on other lenovo laptops)