Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
24-08-2026 21:40 via theregister.com

Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg

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
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