Idle Mac Rentals for AI Earn Less as Token Costs Fall
Darkbloom lets people rent out their idle Macs to run AI work. The firm warns that token costs are falling fast, and its network's earnings have dropped to $1.23 a day. The story says Anthropic's token figures fell 77 percent.
Quick glossaryDarkbloom, Inference, Tokens
- Darkbloom
- A firm whose network lets people rent out their idle Mac computers for AI work; the story gives no more detail about it.
- Inference
- Running an already trained AI model to produce answers, as opposed to training it in the first place.
- Tokens
- Small chunks of text that AI models read and write, which companies often use to measure how much they charge.
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