Discovery Lens
C Combination Innovation
Two separate worlds finally connect — and the intersection is a product
One-Liner
A platform that aggregates idle compute from consumer devices (phones, laptops, gaming PCs) to run AI inference workloads, bypassing the data center bottleneck.
Kill Reason
Consumer-grade distributed inference faces an unsolvable latency problem: interactive AI workloads require sub-300ms round trips, but coordinating across residential internet connections with variable uptime makes this physically implausible. The market need is already served by cloud inference providers (Together.ai, Fireworks.ai, Groq) with low latency and no coordination overhead, and hardware accelerators (Groq LPU, Cerebras) are collapsing inference costs faster than consumer compute aggregation could.
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