[maxgashkov]

What is the incentive for me to join the public mesh? Do you have any fairness guarantees, e.g. if I contribute 1/8th of the VRAM required to run a particular model, do I get at least 1/16th of the inference share, or anything similar to this?

[sig_kill]

Great question! We’ve had a lot of discussions about the direction we want to take this, and how to best generate some kind of incentive / fairness reward.

And we’ve found ourselves hesitating on a direction because, at least for now, the primary use case in a useable env is private hosts you own in a mesh; which makes any sort of reward/ incentive structure somewhat unnecessary (for this setup).

When the public mesh becomes large enough and we get around to extending the existing “mesh governance” features is likely when we’ll add something like you’ve described.

For now, the public mesh is totally open with no restrictions or limitations.