Salad, a distributed cloud for AI (like Airbnb for GPUs)
Hey HN! Bob here, Founder and CEO of Salad (www.salad.com), a distributed cloud for AI inference at scale. *Why Salad?* Because there’s 400 Million consumer GPUs in the world (~100 Million AI-enabled RTX GPUS) and most of them lie unused for 18-22 hrs a day. These consumer GPUs offer similar or better cost-performance than high-end AI GPUs for many AI/ML use cases (Speech-to-text, batch jobs, text-to-image, computer vision to name a few). With Salad, we have activated this latent compute in everyday PCs to power AI/ML workloads. *How big is our network?* More than 1,900,000…
Salad, a distributed cloud for AI (like Airbnb for GPUs) launched on May 3, 2024 with 15 votes, #967 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Salad is a distributed cloud platform that connects consumer GPUs from personal computers to AI companies needing inference compute power. It leverages the estimated 400 million idle consumer GPUs worldwide—most unused 18-22 hours daily—to run AI workloads like speech-to-text, image generation, and computer vision. The platform serves AI companies and data scientists seeking cost-effective GPU access while allowing individual PC owners to earn by sharing their unused computing resources. Salad operates a network of over 1.9 million participants with thousands of GPUs actively running workloads.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! Bob here, Founder and CEO of Salad (www.salad.com), a distributed cloud for AI inference at scale. *Why Salad?* Because there’s 400 Million consumer GPUs in the world (~100 Million AI-enabled RTX GPUS) and most of them lie unused for 18-22 hrs a day. These consumer GPUs offer similar or better…
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