An AI (compute) cooperative

This is an interesting idea: “co/core is a place where people share the compute they already own to run AI for each other, instead of renting from a handful of giant providers.” Mac only for the moment, but the main innovation is building a standard for being able to share compute power.

Years ago, Vinay Gupta and I tried to get Firecloud funded by Mozilla Hatchery. The idea was to put a WebRTC-enabled publishing platform in every Firefox browser, the idea being that we share the resources that we have. This is a similar vibe, but for AI.

Underneath the co-op is an open standard for two plain things: making an inference request, and recording what happened afterward — a signed, public account of every job. We run one exchange on top of it, with our rules: one unit in, one unit out, a shared pot that goes back to members. But the standard is the real work here. Anyone can stand up a different exchange — their own pricing, their own membership, their own idea of what's fair — reading and writing the very same records. Ours is just the first one. If co/core ever stops being the version you want, you don't have to ask us to change it; you can go build yours.

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Source: console.cocore.dev
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