| Hey HN! Bob here, Founder and CEO of Salad ([www.salad.com](http://www.salad.comwww.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 individual PC owners on the network. Around 10K+ GPUs (RTX/GTX series) are running AI workloads from companies at any given time. *What’s in it for AI companies & data scientists?* Users get GPUs at the lowest market price with high scalability *What’s in it for people sharing GPU time?* GPU owners get rewards ranging $20 - $180 depending on the GPU type (Higher vRAM GPUs earn more). These rewards can be exchanged in our marketplace for gift cards, games and more. *How are our prices?* GPU prices start from $0.02/hour and across different consumer GPUs, we have the lowest price and largest scale in the market. For ex, an RTX 3080Ti for AI transcription costs $0.0012/hour with a self-managed OS model on Salad. The next best cost in the market is an API ($0.28/hr). *Who can run on SaladCloud today?* Here are the best fits for our infra today: (1) Needs >3 GPUs running 24*7 (2) AI inference workloads or batch processing (3) No compliance-related workloads (HIPAA, etc) or highly sensitive/proprietary data As a distributed cloud, we are workload-agnostic. That being said, with our current features & team, we are best poised to support AI/ML workloads. As we grow, we will add more support for other workloads. We’re happy to offer $1000 in free credits if you have a demand for more than 10 GPUs per month running consistently. Just sign up for a demo call and select ‘HackerNews’ in the ‘How did you hear about us?’ field. Book a call to discuss your use case: https://salad.com/get-a-demo Signup for SaladCloud here: https://portal.salad.com/ To earn with your PC, download the Salad app here: https://salad.com/download GitHub Repo: https://github.com/SaladTechnologies Our mission is to democratize cloud computing with a fully people-powered cloud and helping companies break free from the cloud monopoly! |