Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of using a pretrained model to respond to queries—and they’re willing to pay you for it. “Imagine Uber or Airbnb, but for AI-inference computing tasks,” says Ilman Shazhaev , founder and CEO of Far Labs , based in Abu Dhabi. Th

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