Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
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Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work
Eigen Labs, a five-year-old tech biz based in Seattle, Washington, estimates that owners of Apple Silicon hardware can earn $120 to $200 per month on average by selling idle compute power for AI inference.
Gajesh Naik, an engineer at Eigen Labs, said on Friday that the Darkbloom project, a distributed network of Apple Silicon devices, has become a paid inference provider on OpenRouter and invited Mac owners to add their machines to the Darkbloom network.
"We have fulfilled on track close at 4.5B tokens served and $102K ARR," Naik said in a social media post. "We are [an] open network of Mac machines (250 online right now). On average, people are earning $120-200 per month per machine. If you have a Mac and it's idle most times: put it on darkbloom.dev."
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